Six men contend with their sins as they are lured to an all-female colony on a remote Greek island, in this absorbing, culturally electric, and provocative literary thriller. With a jaw-dropping twist and a searing voice recalling American Psycho and Fight Club, Hive is the debut novel of Garin K. Hovannisian, the award-winning author of the memoir Family of Shadows (HarperCollins 2010). 

Once the notorious playboy of L.A.’s literary scene—celebrated for his buzzy, provocative bestsellers—our author 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 last chance to recover his manhood—and to write his buzziest novel yet.

So begins an electric literary mystery about six men who have been lured to the Hive, a private island colonized by women and run by a masked matriarch called the Queen. Summoned to meet her one by one, the men disappear, until only one man remains. And his only hope for escape lies in that new novel he’s finally writing—the one you now hold in your hands.