When command collapses, who leads the survivors?
Beneath the ruins of Washington D.C., President Jonathan Rutledge and his cabinet shelter as the nation above burns. Cut off from the grid and the chain of command, they must rebuild government from the bunker up-while rival factions and foreign powers move to claim what's left.
Inside reinforced corridors once built for continuity, politics becomes survival. Rumors of mutiny echo through the Situation Room, the Vice President's plane is missing, and the line between protocol and paranoia blurs.
Outside, America fragments into silence. Inside, the last government on Earth is deciding whether to act, surrender, or disappear.
Zero Hour: Washington is Book 2 of the Mayday 2026 Chronicles-a tense political and moral reckoning at the end of the world.