{"id":23562,"date":"2024-05-03T13:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2024-06-02T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T12:54:19","slug":"evergreen-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23562","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evergreen Chase<\/em><\/a> (2021) Juneau Black<\/a> (Shady Hollow)<\/p>\n

\"Evergreen<\/a>It’s almost Solstice, but someone has stolen Shady Hollow’s solstice tree–the tallest in the forest! The one that Callum Burrows has been been tending for years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been my privilege to tend this year\u2019s tree. It was selected thirty-six years ago, and it\u2019s become the finest, tallest, and most beautiful specimen in Evergreen Chase. I watered it when it was a sapling, trimmed back growth around it, covered it with a blanket during the summer hailstorm twenty years back, and picked off beetles one by one during the infestation last decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who would do such a thing?<\/p>\n

\u201cLook like teeth marks,\u201d Meade said. \u201cCould be muskrat or beaver.\u201d <\/p>\n

The beavers standing nearby huffed with offended pride. \u201cWe would never!\u201d one declared. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, anyway, we\u2019ve got tools for that!\u201d another added, lifting a long saw the team had brought along. <\/p>\n

A third beaver said, \u201cYeah, we\u2019re not barbarians.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe only gnaw on dentist-approved wood products,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But who would want to ruin the town’s holiday spirit?<\/p>\n

Characters: Vera Vixen, Lenore Lee, Orville Braun, Howard Chitters, Theodore Meade, Parson Dusty, Lefty, Joe Elkin, Callum Burrows<\/p>\n

Cover design and illustration by Perry De La Vega<\/p>\n

Publisher: Vintage<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It was selected thirty-six years ago, and it\u2019s become the finest, tallest, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[191,190,292,2,204,8,196],"tags":[757,758],"class_list":["post-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-mystery","category-novella","tag-juneau-black","tag-shady-hollow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-682","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26614,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26614","url_meta":{"origin":23562,"position":0},"title":"Evergreen Chase","author":"Michelle","date":"April 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Evergreen Chase (2021) Juneau Black (Shady Hollow #3.5) The committee selects promising trees years in advance and assigns someone to tend each one right up until it\u2019s cut down. ... \u201cWow, that\u2019s more serious than I\u2019d guessed. 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