Hive

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Six men are seduced to a remote Greek island colonized by women and ruled by a masked monarch called the Queen. Summoned to meet her one by one the men disappear until only one is left in this provocative twisted and incendiary thriller for our time. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The protagonist's worldview may be toxic to many warns <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> but satisfying twists await readers able to make it through. A morally ambiguous serpentine character-driven puzzle.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Once the notorious playboy of L.A.'s literary scene</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>celebrated for his buzzy controversial bestsellers</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adam has lost his luster. Blacklisted by publishers and haunted by #MeToo accusations he has quit writing taken a teaching job and settled into a dead-end marriage. But a black envelope carrying an invitation to a mysterious creative residency offers him one final chance to recover his voice and manhood</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and to write his buzziest novel yet.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So begins an electric literary mystery about six men who have been lured to the Hive a private island run by women and ruled by a diabolical matriarch. Invited to unmask the Queen the men disappear until only one remains. And his last hope of escape lies in that new novel he's finally writing.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Hive</em> is equal parts horror Greek tragedy and cutting social commentary wrapped in a spellbinding psychological fever dream that won't be easy to wake up from by the award-winning author of <em>Family of Shadows</em> Garin K. Hovannisian.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p>