Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Dorothea Benton Frank:

Queen Bee, August 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Isle of Palms, May 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Queen Bee, May 2019
Paperback / e-Book
The Last Original Wife, December 2018
Mass Market Paperback
Same Beach, Next Year, May 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Same Beach, Next Year, May 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
All Summer Long, June 2016
Hardcover
All The Single Ladies, June 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Hurricane Sisters, June 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Original Wife, June 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Porch Lights, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Bulls Island, August 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
Folly Beach, June 2011
Hardcover
Lowcountry Summer, April 2011
Paperback
Lowcountry Summer, April 2011
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Return To Sullivans Island, May 2010
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Return To Sullivans Island, May 2010
Trade Size (reprint)
The Christmas Pearl, November 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Return To Sullivans Island, July 2009
Hardcover
Land Of Mango Sunsets, June 2009
Paperback
Bulls Island, June 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Bulls Island, April 2008
Hardcover
The Land of Mango Sunsets, April 2008
Mass Market Paperback
The Christmas Pearl, November 2007
Hardcover
The Land of Mango Sunsets, April 2007
Hardcover
Full of Grace, April 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Pawleys Island, November 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Full of Grace, May 2006
Hardcover
Shem Creek, May 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Pawley's Island, May 2005
Hardcover
Isle of Palms, January 2005
Trade Size
Shem Creek, August 2004
Hardcover
Isle of Palms, June 2004
Paperback
Plantation, March 2004
Trade Size / e-Book
Plantation, March 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Sullivan's Island, January 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Folly Beach, November 0000
Paperback / e-Book

Queen Bee
Dorothea Benton Frank

Lowcountry Tales #12
William Morrow Paperbacks
May 2019
On Sale: May 28, 2019
432 pages
ISBN: 0062861239
EAN: 9780062861238
Kindle: B07DNCK4RZ
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Other Editions
Mass Market Paperback (August 2021)

Fiction Classics

“If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank." —Elin Hilderbrand, the New York Times bestselling author

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank’s Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivans Island.

Beekeeper Holly McNee Jensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivans Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she’s a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted hypochondriac, might be unaware that she’s quite ill but that doesn’t stop her from tormenting Holly. To escape the drama, Holly’s sister Leslie married and moved away, wanting little to do with island life. Holly’s escape is to submerge herself in the lives of the two young boys next door and their widowed father, Archie.

Her world is upended when the more flamboyant Leslie returns and both sisters, polar opposites, fixate on what’s happening in their neighbor’s home. Is Archie really in love with that awful ice queen of a woman? If Archie marries her, what will become of his little boys? Restless Leslie is desperate for validation after her imploded marriage, squandering her favors on any and all takers. Their mother ups her game in an uproarious and theatrical downward spiral. Scandalized Holly is talking to her honey bees a mile a minute, as though they’ll give her a solution to all the chaos. Maybe they will.

Queen Bee is a classic Lowcountry Tale—warm, wise and hilarious, it roars with humanity and a dropperful of whodunit added for good measure by an unseen hand. In her twentieth novel, Dorothea Benton Frank brings us back to her beloved island with an unforgettable story where the Lowcountry magic of the natural world collides with the beat of the human heart.v

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!