The Hive - Melissa Scholes Young

2021 Indie Best Contest Winner2021 Finalist for American Book Fest’s for Best Book AwardA 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Cover DesignA 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Second NovelRural Missouri, a hot summer day on

the Mississippi River during the Great Recession. The four Fehler sisters want

to be more than “bug girls” in their family’s fourth-generation pest control

business, but their path is fixed. When the patriarch suddenly dies, and his

succession goes according to plan but not expectation, they each must plot a

course for themselves in uncertain and changing times. Through it all, their

mother, Grace, weighs her own choices, and whether her passion to save her

family as a doomsday prepper also includes blowing up her world with a

forbidden romance. In their small town and around the

dinner table, the Fehlers embody Midwestern resilience as they come together to

save the company’s finances and the family’s future, and work to preserve what

they have by evolving as a hive. Once again, Flood author Melissa Scholes Young has

readers buzzing with the story of an unforgettable family, grieving, and rising

again.