Crimson Divide

by Nick Rucker

CRIMSON DIVIDE This isn't the second civil war. It was the first tribal war on American soil. The United States didn't collapse in fire—it fractured in silence. Not with a bang but with a slow erosion of trust, truth, and common ground. We pushed the system, pushed each other, pushed every institution to its limit— until finally, it broke. Now, the map is meaningless. Bullets and barricades draw borders. There is no president. No Congress. No Red. No Blue. Only townships—self-declared territories held together by fear, loyalty, and power. Each one is its kingdom. Zealots run some and others by tech tyrants. Many men who spoke the loudest and most confidently now rule with a heavy hand. Laws change from street to street. Propaganda is religion. Memory is currency. Highways are battlegrounds. Neighbors are threats. And right in the middle of it all is William Cade—a man trying to make sense of a country that tore itself apart. He's not fighting for a side. He's searching for what's real in a world of rewritten truths and buried histories. Crimson Divide is a visceral, unflinching look at what rises from the ashes when a nation forgets how to speak to itself. A haunting vision of loyalty without logic, territory without unity, and the danger of forgetting who we were. Silence might be the last act of rebellion in a world ruled by the loudest voices.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2026