Hive of Secrets

Some secrets are sealed in wax. Some are sealed in blood. Hers are sealed in honey. When twelve-year-old Wren Callahan is sent to spend the summer with her strange, honey-stained great-uncle Silas at his crumbling farmhouse, she expects boredom. Instead, she finds a locked apiary, a swarm of golden bees that seem to watch her, and a battered leather journal titled The Science of Luck — the same book her great-uncle has spent forty years trying to finish. The bees are dying. The hives are failing. And someone — or something — wants Silas's secrets buried for good. To save the farm, the bees, and the uncle she's only just started to know, Wren must learn the old, half-forgotten arts of the hidden hive world: how to read the secret language of the swarm, how to outwit a robber-bee raid, how to find a vanished queen before the whole colony collapses, and how to survive the deadliest test of all — the long, dark winter of the hive. Packed with buzzing adventure, backyard magic, real bee science, codebreaking, loyal friendship, and a treasure hunt sweeter than honey itself, The Hive of Secrets is a thrilling, heartfelt, and fact-filled quest for readers who love mystery, nature magic, and stories about small heroes who save big things.