The First Shots of the Second Civil War
(2026)(The second book in the Fall of the American Republic series)
A novel by B T Gottfred
The election is over. The war for America has begun.
President Mitchel T. Sinclair has stolen the midterms, unleashed his armed Sentinels on polling places, and declared anyone who resists him an enemy of the state. When California refuses to recognize the results, a rebellion is born in the western states. New York and New England soon follow. The United States is no longer one country governed by one law.
Twenty-four-year-old political strategist Tessa Roth believes the crisis could make her indispensable. Her mission is to find Abigail Avery, the vanished White House aide who may possess the only evidence capable of destroying Sinclair. But every faction wants Abigail—and everyone intends to use Tessa to reach her.
Luke Langford has spent his life avoiding the ambitions and loyalties tearing his powerful family apart. Now his father commands the Sentinels, his mother has become their most dangerous critic, and his siblings are choosing opposite sides of a conflict moving rapidly toward civil war. When Luke is ordered to betray Tessa, the two young fugitives become unlikely partners in the fight to build an alternative America.
As governors secede, armies divide, and a new American Union prepares its first Congress, Abigail Avery moves secretly toward Washington with a plan of her own.
Three young Americans. Three competing visions of resistance. One country approaching the moment when politics ends —and the shooting begins.
Book Two of The Fall of the American Republic.
Genre: Science Fiction
President Mitchel T. Sinclair has stolen the midterms, unleashed his armed Sentinels on polling places, and declared anyone who resists him an enemy of the state. When California refuses to recognize the results, a rebellion is born in the western states. New York and New England soon follow. The United States is no longer one country governed by one law.
Twenty-four-year-old political strategist Tessa Roth believes the crisis could make her indispensable. Her mission is to find Abigail Avery, the vanished White House aide who may possess the only evidence capable of destroying Sinclair. But every faction wants Abigail—and everyone intends to use Tessa to reach her.
Luke Langford has spent his life avoiding the ambitions and loyalties tearing his powerful family apart. Now his father commands the Sentinels, his mother has become their most dangerous critic, and his siblings are choosing opposite sides of a conflict moving rapidly toward civil war. When Luke is ordered to betray Tessa, the two young fugitives become unlikely partners in the fight to build an alternative America.
As governors secede, armies divide, and a new American Union prepares its first Congress, Abigail Avery moves secretly toward Washington with a plan of her own.
Three young Americans. Three competing visions of resistance. One country approaching the moment when politics ends —and the shooting begins.
Book Two of The Fall of the American Republic.
Genre: Science Fiction