The Red Bee

All the Rage

By: Yoko Bongo

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They wanted a superhero. They’re going to get a scientist.

Forty-two-year-old entomologist Jenna Raleigh retired her superhero alter-ego, the Red Bee, eight years ago. But when her ex-husband calls her to a Florida wetland to investigate a bizarre ecological anomaly, she walks into a carefully laid trap. Swarms of hyper-coordinated mosquitoes don't just attack her—they recognize her, triggering a dormant, arthropod-adjacent mutation inherited from her great-uncle, the original WWII-era Red Bee.

Jenna quickly uncovers a chilling corporate conspiracy. A shadowy biotech network is using her unique genetic legacy to manufacture "The Rage Factor," a weaponized compound designed to amplify emotional distress and feed the modern social media engagement economy. Worse, she is their ultimate marketing tool. The angrier she gets, the more of the valuable compound her transforming body produces. And once they've harvested enough from her, they plan to sell the world the cure.

With her body rapidly rewriting its own DNA and a ticking biological clock, Jenna learns she isn't the first woman targeted by this machine—but she fully intends to be the last. Armed with the help of her brilliant young lab assistant and the suppressed research of her predecessors, Jenna must race to dismantle a global pharmaceutical empire.

To survive, she can't afford the theatrical rage her enemies are banking on. She's going to have to do what she does best: observe the hive, locate the design, and change the conditions.

The Red Bee: All the Rage is a gripping, bio-punk superhero deconstruction about corporate overreach, the weaponization of human emotion, and the quiet, unstoppable power of a woman who refuses to be harvested.