Scorched Earth - Lynne Cantwell - Bog

Harvest's in... Sue faces the biggest challenge of her career: she has three weeks to raise millions of dollars for research into a supergrain that promises to end world hunger. But ayalendo has some distressing -- even dangerous -- qualities. And Lucifer means to exploit them to control the world's food supply and become a god at last. When Tess learns the identity of the shady corporation pushing ayalendo's development, she realizes her own livelihood may be in jeopardy. She and Darrell embark on a cross-country journey to her parents' farm to gather information for a congressional committee investigating the ayalendo project. The gods are bringing in some big guns to help. But it will be up to Sue, Tess, and Darrell to defeat Lucifer, once and for all.