In 1877, Arizona, brilliant entomologist Dr. Evelyn Blackwood and legendary hunter Jack "Bloody Jack" Carver must forge an unlikely partnership to stop a terrifying hive mind from consuming the frontier. When insects begin displaying impossible intelligence and missing settlers leave behind only emptied homesteads, they discover an ancient collective consciousness awakening beneath the desert-one that turns every small creature into an extension of its alien will. As the hive builds toward a catastrophic metamorphosis under the command of a hybrid queen who was once human, Evelyn and Jack must use their combined expertise to prevent humanity's extinction. A thrilling, weird western that blends Victorian scientific adventure with creature feature horror.