A fundamentalist preacher with a misogynous bent gains control of the Kansas legislature and begins enacting laws to subjugate women. Law student Stacey Davenport starts a political resistance and begins an affair with an idealistic, married legislator who is holding out alone against the worst of these measures. But as her lover’s passion for her slowly morphs into an uncontrolled jealousy, his deep-seated urge to control her overpowers all constraints of politics and religion. Only then does she realize the dysfunctional family she had scorned and avoided for many years is her only hope.
Thomas Keech has written four previous critically acclaimed novels dealing with state politics, teenagers entangled in suburban corruption, college romance, and a predatory physician. He sincerely hopes that this dystopian novel of fundamentalist madness is not predictive of the future. He currently lives in a very blue state that has it own problems. He hopes to visit Kansas some day.
