In my eighteen years of seriously taking up writing, I have never felt so strongly about a timely fiction project before, nothing sugary and sweet, but brutal, dark, and very close to what regular citizens are facing in this recent society. Two types of characters I develop are tangled up into a society where greed and power motivate an unconscionable process known as "Insect Politics". Ava Hester, the main character, a service worker in a Midwestern hospital becomes very aware of this grime concept as she helped a distressed dying cancer patient. In her quest to become a viable writer, her wishful thinking is turned into a full-blown search for the truth. Outrage over the mysterious deaths mounting brings in major conflicts with her grown daughter, Betsy, a literary agent in San Francisco.

Beautiful, driven, compared by an ex-lover as a female praying mantis, Betsy meets recent widower Virginia senator Charles Mead who has sinister connections with powerful corporations caught up in practices of systematically eliminating the poor, the sick, and the old. Betsy becomes Mead’s fiance. Ava’s recent research forces her to divulge the senator’s liaison with HoneyBee Food & Beverage owner and CEO, Lucinda Ivers. A broken engagement and a nightmarish witnessing of her best friend dying of an agonizing condition known as ’Dead Gut’, Betsy turns from elitist brat to an advocate of her mother’s writings.

Charles Mead reaches an all-time low when he attempts to do away with his father, Thomas Albert Mead. Charles’s sister Katherine is befriended by Ava, together they save Tom from the same death as so many from regular consumption of diet soda, a product of HoneyBee. Tom’s future is altered to the positive as Katherine, a doctor living in the Northern Panhandle village of Beech Bottom, West Virginia makes arrangements for him to join the Broom family farm. This part of the novel ushers in a solution to the madness; a farm where the cattle and chickens have free-roaming rights, and cornfields, other prime vegetables are planted and cultivated without insecticides.

Table are dramatically turned when the hand of the Ivers clan travel to the sleepy community of Foster, Indiana to murder Ava Hester. Two modes of action merge as a result of her tragic death; a lengthy political process to prosecute the twin boys of Lucinda Ivers, Bruno and Luca. The outrage of how slow the judicial process runs where any conviction is actually going to happen and if the HoneyBee empire will get shut down. These conundrums spurn Betsy to plan a demonstration on the day the President elect will be sworn in at the west lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Thousands of Ava Hester’s supporters are met by gunfire with Betsy’s brother Ryan getting shot twice. To her surprise, a redeemed Charles Mead comes to her rescue with a direct line for Ryan getting medical attention. Republican President getting sworn in without a hitch, anymore corruption to continue. Insect Politics does it continue? Those that believe in the human experience to remain and conquer the madness will continue to fight despite how hard life as we know will exist.