Senator Adaeze Okonkwo needs thirty-one votes to pass the Climate Resilience and Infrastructure Act with forty-eight hours until the floor vote, and she is one short. Her key commitment, Senator Douglas Hale of Kentucky, is wavering under pressure from the Meridian Energy Group, which has made a technically legal but ethically ambiguous jobs offer through an unregistered intermediary. Working methodically, Adaeze secures the help of the opposing senior senator from Kentucky, James Calloway, who refuses to allow his colleague to be misled on technical grounds despite opposing the bill himself. She simultaneously addresses the legitimate concerns of first-term Senator Patricia Vance through direct language modifications. When Calloway confronts Hale about the undisclosed pressure, Hale recommits, delivering the thirty-first vote. The final count reaches thirty-four, as four hundred constituent calls from Utah move two additional senators in the final hours.
Political Intrigue
Hero
Conspiracy
Hopepunk
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length51 mins
Narrated bySelect Your Own
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
4Chapter 4
2Chapter 2
5Chapter 5
3Chapter 3
About the author
Stephanie Janifer
I started off as a freelance create writer, till I realized that I could create amazing stories for myself. My readers are always engaged till the end because they always know there's a twist. So, here's my question for you... Can you guess the twist before you get there?View all by Stephanie Janifer
