NOB

by Elizabeth Brown

In a post-storm world, where remembering causes physical pain, language is restricted, fiction is banned, sixty-five is passing time, women are sold, and minds are controlled, Eliot and Lenore try to navigate their way back to each other after breaking the rule of intimacy set by NOB's Office of Policy and Humanitarian Rights.NOB, tyrant and designer of a new age and the Grand NOB Party, controls all agencies in what used to be the United States and is now three East, Midwest and West. The GNP top party leaders reside in the West, the one region spared, and their main objective is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Using nanotechnologies, NOB's Information Technology Agency creates new species of bugs, cyborgs, and even manipulates weather..Lenore is living in the West in a restricted household where she’s forced obey the strict rules of Adam, her claimant. After three years of bondage, she manages to keep to the script for her daughter, until she slips and goes off track and is reassigned.Eliot’s infatuation with Esther keeps him occupied in the decimated East. When she vanishes, he considers ending it. But then a stray girl shows up at his door, and he finds a will to press on, until he’s forced to leave her behind.Worlds collide, when an unexpected phone call sends Eliot and longtime friend, Lester Goldman, on a classified mission to the West. Here vile truths are exposed, and with the help of Goldman, Eliot Feinemann sets out to do whatever it takes to find his family and end NOB's reign of terror.But nothing comes without a price.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2022

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