The Pigs Are Starving is a Southern gothic horror novel about inherited violence, environmental ruin, and systems that do not forgive. When a gifted but self-destructive teenager becomes entangled with a rural drug syndicate rumored to dispose of bodies through hog pens, he begins to uncover something far older and more sinister than organized crime. As the land itself awakens to decades of corruption, pollution, and bloodshed, justice is no longer personal or moral, it is bureaucratic, ritualized, and inevitable. This is a story where evil is not chaotic, but procedural, and where punishment is not judgment, but a moral accounting and reckoning.