Hostages (The Grand Divorce)

By Lorrie Scott

Four young women sharing a house in Washington, D.C. are embarked on exciting careers out of college. Carrie Lynn Michaels shows up for work one morning to find out that she has been promoted to the Director of Strategic Planning and Legislative Affairs at a conservative lobbying organization after her boss was fired. It is an overwhelming challenge, as she must develop a negotiating strategy for the secession of The New Confederacy. Lucy Wiles, spends a lot of her time as assistant to The White House Chief of Staff avoiding his touchy feely hands plus the lecherous attentions of the President of the United States. When they are not harassing Lucy, the President and his Chief of Staff are up to something more sinister - a coup to remain in power and halt the secession of The New Confederacy. Amanda Nichols snags job of reporting on progressive Senator AOC's presidential campaign for a prestigious Washington, D.C. newspaper. What is normally a highly sought after plum job turns into boring drudgery as the Senator crosses The New Confederacy, courting voters who support her pro-secession stance. But what Amanda doesn't know is that the real stories are with the housemates she left behind to follow the Senator. Julee Trent spends most of her time dealing with big egos while seeking job security as a producer for a progressive cable news station. When the former Commerce Secretary Kathryn Schropp, fired for blowing the whistle on the President's scheme to falsify a census, becomes the cable news station's newest pundit, Julee latches on to her as her ticket to a head producer job. But what seemed like a brilliant strategy turns out to have a lot of challenges as Julee becomes entangled in Kathryn's messy personal life. Carrie Lynn, Lucy, Amanda and Julee, unwittingly find themselves at the center of the greatest threat to the United States since The Civil War as the clock starts ticking down to the destruction of the world's greatest democracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F678FN4K
• ISBN13: 9798281181129
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 620 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.4" x 6.0"