Sting of the Innocent

<p>When Mirelle Brandt inherits her late grandmother's remote smallholding on the outskirts of Willowmore she also inherits something far older-and far more dangerous-than bees.<br>Raised in silence and shadow Mirelle returns to a land steeped in ancestral memory only to discover she carries the same rare gift passed down through generations: the ability to commune with bees. What begins as an act of protection-guiding the hives to defend women and children from abuse-soon spirals into something darker. The bees no longer wait for her command. Word spreads. The hives multiply. Justice becomes vengeance.<br>As wild colonies awaken across the Karoo connected by a hive mind built on pain Mirelle realizes the swarms are no longer targeting the guilty alone. The innocent begin to fall.<br>Haunted by her past and burdened with the Hive's memory Mirelle must journey into the heart of the swarm-where rogue queens rise and judgment takes flight-to stop the spread of violence before the entire land is consumed.<br>But the Hive does not forget.<br>And the Queen always returns.</p>