EMPIRES RISE AND FALL... What if you lived in a country with an overly restrictive government that used technology to suppress individual freedoms? When David Evans agreed to help with the technical details of staging a New Year's Eve event in the small city of Penndelom, PA, he could never have imagined what their fireworks would set off. Suddenly, David's world erupts into chaos as the United States breaks into new geographic regions. Is this new found order better than the old? Together with new-found ally, confident, and more - Jen O'Neil, they work with a charismatic governor, to survive several events that mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. DISCOVER HOW ONE SMALL CITY CAN RESHAPE A COUNTRY "How bad would things have to be for you to want to secede from the union? The Divided States novel by Bob Thomas supplies food for thought. . . . It makes me wonder, how big is too big? Do individuals get lost in the shuffle and politicians have their own agendas, forgetting who they work for?" - Sherry Fundin from Fundinmental