When the blazing Southern sun turns sidewalks into frying pans, fifteen-year-old Alonzo Rainwater stumbles onto something stranger than the heat itself: a talking beetle with a thick Scottish accent and a dangerous secret. In this quirky magical realist tale, Alonzo must decide if helping the beetle escape means risking everything he knows.
When the blazing Southern sun turns sidewalks into frying pans, fifteen-year-old Alonzo Rainwater stumbles onto something stranger than the heat itself: a talking beetle with a thick Scottish accent and a dangerous secret. In this quirky magical realist tale, Alonzo must decide if helping the beetle escape means risking everything he knows.