The State

After two resignations, the nation must hold a special election to determine the president. The incumbent, trying to hold power by any means, has no qualms making deals with the devil. His old boss wants his job back and will go to extremes to get it. As a lethal chess match unfolds, ghosts of enemies past will seize the opportunity to expand on old haunts...and change the American state forever. More

After a series of Oval Office resignations caused by the crises in Midland, Texas, the nation must hold a special election to determine the next president of the United States. A desperate incumbent, trying to hold onto power by any means necessary, has few qualms making deals with the devil. His predecessor, regretting his resignation, wants back in his old office and is willing to shake up the entire political establishment to do so. From old haunts all across the country, ghosts of enemies past see the tumultuous special election as an opportunity to do what they do best. As the strategic chess match unfolds across the entire nation, taking the lethal action from Texas to Alaska to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, America as a state may never be the same again.