The Hive

2021 Indie Best Contest Winner

2021 Finalist for American Book Fest’s for Best Book Award

A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Cover Design

A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Second Novel

Rural 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.