We Are Still Free
A Novel by Herschel Knight
One hundred and sixty years after a bloodless secession, the Confederate States of America endures: prosperous, pious, and unyielding. To outsiders, it is a beacon of order. To its citizens, it is a gilded cage wrapped in scripture and surveillance.
Eleanor DuPont is a dead woman, at least according to state records. Once a journalist, now the voice of a pirate broadcast network, she transmits forbidden truths across a silenced South. When a routine smuggler run goes violently wrong, Eleanor is forced to choose between the resistance and a ghost from her past: a daughter she was never supposed to know.
Across the border, Mason Reilly wants nothing to do with politics. He fixes cars and minds his business - until a bleeding girl stumbles into his path, and the quiet lie of neutrality collapses.
As resistance cells fall, and unmarked helicopters rise, lives converge in a story of hidden transmissions, moral fracture, and quiet acts of defiance that ripple across a divided continent.
Told through vignettes, intercepted signals, and conflicting truths, We Are Still Free is a tense, haunting portrait of parallel Americas and the people who refuse to be erased.