Colony In Danger: The Fire Ant Kingdom (Book 1) (Colony In Danger: A Fire Ant Adventure)

The colony is starving. The Queen won’t say why. And the kid sorting seeds is the only one asking the right questions.

Cinder Marlowe has wanted to be a scout since the day he could walk. Instead, he sorts seeds with his two best friends...Blaze, the strongest ant in their cohort; Thistle, the smartest...and watches Captain Selwick’s patrols leave for the perimeter without him.

Then the food bins start emptying overnight. Scouts vanish without a trace. And when Cinder digs a pill bug shell fragment out of the grain...proof of an enemy his Queen won’t name...Aureline Vael responds by locking the colony down. No one in. No one out.

Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle have four days of food, a nursery already on half rations, and one option no adult will admit: slip past the Queen’s guards, cross into the wild meadow, and find what’s hunting them before the colony falls.

Out there, every blade of grass hides a predator. Black ants guard their borders. Water striders patrol the puddles. And somewhere in the tall grass, the real enemy is closer than anyone wants to believe.

Three friends. Five days. One colony that’s already counting down.

For fans of Watership Down, Warriors, and Empires of the Undergrowth.

The Fire Ant Kingdom is Book 1 of the Colony in Danger series...a middle school, insect adventure book for boys ages 8–14. The biology is researched. The stakes are real.

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