Keeper's War

The last hive has fallen. Only one queen remains. Should the world trust its fate to an angry sixteen year old? They told her the hive wasn't real. They said she shouldn't let her imagination run wild. They told her it was time to grow up and stop day dreaming. Estefania's privileged childhood is finished. It ended with the arrival of the Forlornn battleship which brought danger with it on the next high tide. The natural world is in turmoil and an unexpected winter begins without warning. The bees are disappearing and the City of Men doesn't care. But Estefania knows the hive she visits is real and so are the bees. She knows because she's the last queen. This is the first book in A Keeper's War trilogy. Start reading today and never again view bees in the same way.

The last hive has fallen.Only one queen remains.Would you give up your life to save a colony who hates you?At sixteen, Estefania discovers her life has been a lie. Her father isn't a warring king too busy to visit her. Her father never existed. Her island home is a carefully constructed facade to keep her safe from the mysterious Wasp Lord, who wants her dead.Betrothed to an arrogant prince to get her away from the island in secret, Estefania is sent to the frightening world of men. Instead of finding safety as a princess in a royal family, she meets the face of cruelty and becomes the victim of another plot.One man stands between her and death. He's been with her since childhood, but she doesn't trust him. She doesn't even like him.Estefania has a secret, one she must guard with her life. She has a bee nature. She's seen the hive. She is the last queen.This is the first book in A Keeper's War trilogy. Download Perpetual Winter at its introductory price. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter. The world is in peril and the bees are disappearing. Only the virgin bee queen bearing the mark of Sonora's colony can reverse the perpetual winter which threatens to destroy the world.But she doesn't know it all rests on her shoulders.And when she finds out, she doesn't want to rescue anyone but herself.

They think they know what's best for her. But what if they don't? Would you fight for a destiny you didn't want?Estefania might be a Melitto princess, but she doesn't want to be the bee queen her mother intended.When the Keeper leads her back to the stricken colony, she finds a sullen group seething with resentment at their rejection from Sonora's swarm.They don't want her.And she doesn't want them. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter. The world is in peril and the bees are disappearing. Only the virgin bee queen bearing the mark of Sonora's colony can reverse the perpetual winter which threatens to destroy the world.But she doesn't know it all rests on her shoulders.And when she finds out, she doesn't want to rescue anyone but herself.

She wants vengeance. He wants to fulfill a promise. The hive needs a queen, but will they accept her? Trapped in a dying world, Estefania of the Melitto clan allies with the Bee Keeper. But their goals are too different to co-exist. Limah serves Sonora, attempting to honor his promise to safeguard the last virgin queen in the bloodline. But Estefania doesn't want the throne. Strong willed and selfish, the last queen is unfit for her role. But she doesn't care. The face of her destiny contains the smiling maw of death and she follows it, not considering the vulnerable souls she abandons unguarded in the hive. Assuming the weaponry of war, Estefania trains herself to kill the Wasp Lord. But her journey takes her somewhere she never expected to go. She must face herself and her flaws in a battle which will determine the outcome for everyone. The cost of victory is high, but defeat is not an option. As the dwindling survivors of the unnatural winter seek leadership in all the wrong places, Estefania must set aside the petulant princess and become the Bee Queen. Vengeance is coming. The death of the last bee queen. The end of everything. This is the second book in A Keeper's War trilogy.

Would you trust an angry sixteen year old with your fate?A spoiled princess, a world in crisis and the mystery of the disappearing bees. Estefania is a brat. Nothing in her nature indicates she possesses the power to save the natural order from destruction. What's more; she doesn't even want to.This quest will unlock a moral dilemma, a girl struggling with her own inner crisis and a power hungry ruler. There's no doubt the world needs saving. But what if it just won't listen?What if it doesn't want to be saved?