<b>She wants vengeance.<br />He wants to fulfill a promise.<br />The hive needs a queen, but will they accept her?</b><br /><br />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 honour his promise to safeguard the last virgin queen in the bloodline. But Estefania doesn&rsquo;t want the throne.<br /><br />Strong willed and selfish, the last queen is unfit for her role. But she doesn&rsquo;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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Vengeance is coming.<br /><br />The death of the last bee queen.<br /><br />The end of everything.<br /><br />This is the second book in A Keeper&#39;s War trilogy.