The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

 Although Garvin's book has a "Hallmark Special" feel about it, these days a happy ending is welcome.  Plus - it is about bees in Hood River, Oregon.  Alice is 45 and hoping that raising bees will fill the "love of the land" void created when her family loses the apple orchard they love.  But the work is hard and she knows she will need help.  Enter Harry, a lost soul with a record, but looking for a new way to be.  And then there is Jake, bitter and isolated. One foolish act ended his HS hijinks to begin life in a wheel chair.  When she almost runs him down one evening, he is added to the crew - and the bees lead the way forward for all of them.  There is a good bit of environmental conflict to add to the huge amount of bee information and life lessons. All raised up sweet as honey.  You knew that was coming.