{"product_id":"meat-bees-preorder","title":"Meat Bees - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePub Date: August 04, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e with wasps.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Everyone who loathes those notorious yellow-and-black insects that delight in ruining picnics will find Dane Erbach's Meat Bees to be a nasty, delightful, frightening, and psychologically insightful piece of work.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and The Queen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad's cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn't know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally checked herself into a hospital to take care of her mental health, leaving Scarlett alone with her dad all summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter he insists that she get a job, Scarlett accepts a position at nearby Stovetop Outfitters, hoping to spend as much time away from him as possible. She doesn't expect to trip over a skeletonized corpse beneath the zip-line during one of her shifts--and definitely doesn't expect to be thrown into a Netflix-style true crime investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe local sheriff's department is so overwhelmed by these unsolved deaths that when one of the Stovetop Outfitters employees disappears next, Scarlett and her co-workers set out to find him on their own. They discover something much more horrifying: a swarm of yellow jackets stripping the meat off his body. Scarlett never signed up to solve a disgusting mystery, but in order to protect her friends and family, she must defeat the mountain's darkness and all these godforsaken wasps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDane Erbach\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer from Chicago's northwest suburbs. He teaches English and journalism at a public high school.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Erbach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51875102753053,"sku":"9781968043056","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781968043056.jpg?v=1781281701","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/meat-bees-preorder","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}