Silver may tarnish

the long version

Take a young Lord who has seen misfortune on a massive scale including his dale and keep which suffered destruction from invaders with deadly machines that wipe out his family. Add a young beautiful maiden who is a Lady of power. She it is who receives blessings and communications from the bees whose hives communicate, feed, spy and fight for her after a traitor to her remote keep leads bandits there that kill all of the inhabitants there save herself, a very bad move on their part because she repays them in kind. Together they team up to make a force to be reckoned with as they fight to restore good and reestablish and repopulate her now empty keep. If you like adventure, magic, old ones, love and the Witch World series - this book is for you.