One million women were dethroned from lifelong careers in less than thirty days. Six fought back.
Judge Constance Bennett leaves an evening honoring her thirty years of public service and returns to a hearing room she can no longer enter. Her keycard flashes red. Behind the doors, her office is being packed into boxes.
By midnight, her appointment will be gone.
At home, her husband is waiting. His entire logistics unit has been locked out. Across the nation of Elyndra, accomplished women are losing their positions, their incomes, and the security their families depend on. In the language of official announcements, it is restructuring. In their homes, it is the beginning of a life they never prepared to live.
At Constance's kitchen table, six women begin comparing what happened to them. Their expertise spans law, technology, finance, communications, procurement, and transportation. What they find in dismissal notices, interrupted payments, and buried approvals draws them toward the interests behind the upheaval.
Outside, the consequences are multiplying. Clinics wait for supplies. Food deliveries stall. Businesses close. Drawing on the knowledge and relationships built over decades, the women begin helping their communities survive.
Their work brings public trust-and powerful enemies.
As their influence grows, their families come under scrutiny, their marriages strain, and their dwindling resources threaten everything they have started. Then the people whose calls they answered ask something none of them expected.
Run for office.
With Constance emerging as a contender for governor, the six women enter a political battle against interests determined to keep control of the state.
THE THRONE is a novel of ambition, betrayal, family, and the rise of women whose dismissal becomes the beginning of their ascent to power.
