Mad Honey

by Jodi Picoult

I name all my queen bees after female divas: Adele, Beyoncé, Lady

Gaga, Whitney, and Mariah. Taylor, Britney, Miley, Aretha, and Ariana are in the apple orchard; on other contracts I have Sia, Dionne, Cher, and Katy. The hive that has been attacked is Celine’s.

Asher drags Beyoncé’s hive a few inches, and then Gaga’s. “She loved that song,” he says.