Available NowBook One
The Alpha Bees
History leaves clues. The Hive follows them.
Twenty-six African American women. One newspaper. A past that refuses to stay buried.
From their newsroom on Printer’s Row, the Alpha Bees investigate evidence, trace historical fractures, and confront the consequences those events have carried into the present.
Enter the World
Twenty-six women. Twenty-six letters. One Hive.
The Alpha Bees are twenty-six African American women whose lives converge around a newspaper on Chicago’s historic Printer’s Row. By day, they report, research, preserve records, and follow the stories others overlook. When history begins leaving fractures in the present, the Hive must determine what happened, why it matters, and whether the past can be repaired.
Each Bee brings her own knowledge, perspective, and role to the investigation—but no repair begins until the evidence has been verified.
The Trilogy
Three books. One unfolding timeline.
Available NowBook Two
The Fractured Timeline
Book Two
The Fractured Timeline
Book Three
The Last Edition
Book Three
The Last Edition
Meet the Hive
Twenty-six women. A through Z.
Each Alpha Bee brings her own expertise, perspective, and responsibility to the Hive. Together, the twenty-six women form an investigative network built to notice what others miss, verify the evidence, and protect the integrity of history.
The Investigation Protocol
Every repair begins with the evidence.
The Hive follows a disciplined investigative process before history can be repaired.
Notice
Verify
Trace
Assess
Authorize
Repair
Confirm
HISTORY • EVIDENCE • TIME
The past leaves evidence. The present reveals the consequences.
The Alpha Bees investigate moments in history through records, reporting, archives, and other forms of evidence. When a fracture in the past alters the present, the Hive must trace the change back to its source and determine whether history can—and should—be repaired.
HISTORY
Archival records, newspapers, photographs, and historical evidence.
EVIDENCE
The clues, documents, testimony, and reporting used to verify what happened.
TIME REPAIR
The point where verified evidence and historical consequence converge.
FOR READERS & INSTITUTIONS
Continue the investigation beyond the story.
READERS & BOOK CLUBS
Explore The Alpha Bees through discussion, history, mystery, and the questions raised by the Hive’s investigations.
LIBRARIES & EDUCATORS
Connect The Alpha Bees to reading, research, historical inquiry, and educational programming.
BLACK HISTORY PROGRAMMING
Use the series as a pathway into conversations about historical evidence, overlooked stories, and the consequences of the past.