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The Hive

Melissa Scholes Young · Literary Fiction

64 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

found familycoming of agesmall townfish out of water
contemporary romancecoming of age
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#24 This Month · #93 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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