Harvester (Version 2)

The Harvester lives alone in the Indiana woods, a twenty-six-year-old man who tends the forest and harvests its medicinal plants for pharmaceutical companies. His life is ordered and sufficient until the spring a bluebird arrives and his dog, for the first time in six years, tells him to find a wife. The Harvester is not pleased with this advice. But that night, he dreams of a woman in white, dark-haired and impossibly beautiful, who walks toward him through a field of flowers and bestows a kiss upon him. The vision transforms him. What was once enough suddenly feels like a door standing open onto an empty room. He sets out to find her, this woman who has somehow, impossibly, already claimed his heart. But the world is large, and the path from vision to reality rarely runs straight. Gene Stratton-Porter writes with the precision of a naturalist and the heart of a poet, weaving the wild beauty of the Midwest into a story about the moment when a man who was complete alone discovers he might be incomplete after all.