Beth Kennedy is excited about the PTA's spring Senior Story Project, which pairs elderly residents of Sunny Rest Assisted Living with Tarver Elementary students to produce a book that the PTA can sell as a fund-raiser. But her enthusiasm is dampened when she discovers that Amy Jacobson, one of her regular customers at the bookstore, has died from bee stings. What are bees doing out so unseasonably early in Wisconsin-and why wouldn't Amy, who was deathly allergic, have taken greater care to avoid them?