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The Hive
Melissa Scholes Young · Literary Fiction
48 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
found familycoming of agesmall townsurvival
contemporary romancecoming of age
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#35 This Month · #51 All Time
About this book
The Hive is a story of survival, sisters, and secrets. The Fehler family's four daughters and their newly widowed, doomsday prepper mother struggle to keep their pest control business from bankruptcy during a recession. Set in a racially and politically divided rural Midwestern town during the Obama years, The Hive shows feminism rising from rural roots.
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