The celebration was a cover. The fireworks were a countdown. And they had sixty days to stop it.
On May 5, 2026 - exactly sixty days before America's 250th birthday - a former software engineer known only as Aria discovers something buried deep inside the billion-dollar security system built to protect the nation's greatest celebration.
It isn't a shield.
It's a cage.
Project Monarch - a classified surveillance network years in the making - is set to activate at the stroke of midnight on July 4th, locking down every device, silencing every voice, and handing total control of the United States to the men who built it in secret.
With sixty days on the clock, Aria and a reluctant insider must navigate a web of corporate power, political betrayal, and constitutional deception - uncovering a conspiracy that reaches from the streets of Philadelphia to the deepest layers of the federal government.
The fireworks are already planned.
The question is: who are they really for?
A gripping political thriller for fans of Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva.
Once you start reading, the clock is already ticking.