When his hometown is destroyed by a swarm of giant ants and his girlfriend and mentor are killed by a nest of poisonous centipedes, Jason Carter knows only one way forward, fighting back against a looming ecological catastrophe and those responsible. But when he is recruited to lead the fight fight with money, science, and talent, will anything be enough against a well-organized scientific conspiracy that's not afraid to come after him with guns?Hatchings is an 80 thousand word science fiction novel filled with suspense, action, the real-world sciences of genetic engineering and entomology, and the devastating impact on the world's ecology the emergence of biologically-engineered species could have.