All Union: A Novel of Love, War, and Mystery

by Colin Salt

The 21st Century has rolled around in a world that took a different path from our own. The USSR survived and either reformed or rebranded (depending on who you ask, of course) as the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. It survived, but so did the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.

In 1998, the Sovereign Union went to war against the persistent nuisance, crushing the second-largest army in Europe in nine days. The regime fell, but its leader simply disappeared without a trace. Time went on, but Ceausescu became a figure like Harold Holt and Jimmy Hoffa, with not one clue as to his whereabouts appearing no matter how hard everyone looked.

Several years later, nurse and Romanian War veteran Cholpon Murad-Kyzy has moved to America to start a new life. She and native boyfriend Jim Parker work in a small nursing home in northern New Jersey. Little do they know that their workplace is soon to become the center of the unresolved conflict and new feuds surrounding Romania and the USSR, putting them in the middle of clashes from both the past and present…

414 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2023