B. Vale
B. Vale built a career in technology, but agriculture was always the other pull — years spent working a 2.5-acre homestead, close enough to the land to know what it actually takes to grow something and keep it alive, season after season. That double vantage point, half circuit board and half soil, shapes everything they write.
Now retired, B. Vale lives a nomadic life, unattached to any one place, and makes a point of showing up wherever their grandchildren are, every chance they get.
The Verdi Series is where a career in technology and a lifelong pull toward the land finally found a home — stories about what gets lost when things change too quickly, what holds on, and who does the holding. Roots of Resilience is the debut novel in the series.
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The Verdi Series
Roots of Resilience
Angela DeLancy has tended the same garden plot in Cookeville, Tennessee for thirty years. Her husband buys her a garden robot anyway — and it notices the things she has been refusing to look at.
Seeds of Resistance
A year after saving her farm, Angela DeLancy thought the hardest part was over. Then her grandmother’s rosebush starts dying, a whisper campaign turns the town’s talk against her, and the only answer she has is a public wager, one she has to hand to her fifteen-year-old grandson, Eli, to run.
Harvest of Reconciliation
Angela DeLancy won the battle for her farm — then had to go to Nashville to keep it. Winning there only raises the stakes: a federal rider aimed at undoing it, and a soft-spoken stranger offering an easy way out if she’ll just go quiet.