Rising seawaters were tipping the course of America's history. The country had become rancorously segmented politically as well as geographically between "dry" states and "wet" states. Parts of Florida had surrendered to the sea. Abandoned high-rise buildings poked out from the ocean floor like a multitude of forlorn hands reaching out from overturned graves. Two-thirds of the country's bees had been lost to Colony Collapse Disorder. Half a million Mexican 'guest' agriculture workers hand-pollinated fruit trees and vegetable crops in a desperate effort to maintain the country's food supply. California's fruit became as rare as caviar in post-Tsarist Russia.Out of this chaos a heroic character emerges--Rebecca Tree.Blocked at every turn from uncovering the truth of her family by her omnipotent grandfather, Senator Merewether Tree Retired, Rebecca obsessively fuels her life with accomplishment, serving her country in war and inventing cutting edge technologies in peace.But her heart has multiple holes that won't mend--for her parents who died when she was two, for her twin sister who died when she was four, and for her lover Jackson Toussaint who died in her arms in a desert battle.Manipulating into running for the presidency by her grandfather, she takes center stage after shockingly winning election in a deeply dysfunctional near future America.And then a brother-and-sister 'Native Force' team stalks Rebecca, hell-bent on assassinating herBeware of whiplash....