Another One for the God of Insects
Sanderson McCaffrey knows two things for certain.
The first is that some land takes care of the people who respect it.
The second is that government men never know when to leave.
For generations, the McCaffrey family has farmed the same South Texas soil. The crops survive droughts that should have killed them. The harvests come when they shouldn't. And whenever outsiders push too hard, ask too many questions, or dig too deep into things that don't concern them, trouble has a way of finding them.
Sanderson doesn't pretend to understand it.
His father didn't understand it.
His grandfather didn't understand it.
But they all learned the same lesson.
Some questions are better left unanswered.
Twelve-year-old Sally McCaffrey has grown up hearing stories, working the farm, and learning the unwritten rules that have been passed down through her family for generations. She believes the world works the way nature works. Flies feed spiders. Spiders feed birds. Everything feeds something.
When a young state agriculture inspector arrives to investigate the McCaffrey farm's impossible production records, he finds a family hiding something he can't explain and a field that refuses to behave the way fields should.
The more he digs, the more determined he becomes to uncover the truth.
The more determined Sanderson becomes to send him home.
Neither man realizes how little control either of them actually has.
Set against the backdrop of South Texas farm country, Another One for the God of Insects blends rural folklore, family legacy, quiet dread, and Southern Gothic suspense into a story where the greatest danger is not what can be seen in the fields, but what has been waiting there all along.
Some inherit land.
Some inherit money.
The McCaffreys inherited something else.
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