The Good Woman's Rebellion

von Ortiz

404 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

When women are silenced, the bravest among them learn to whisper louder.In a climate-ravaged America where democracy has fallen, a tyrant rises, cloaking his regime in scripture and ruling with cruelty disguised as divine order. Poison contaminates the soil. Smog chokes the skies. The powerful feast while the poor starve and suffer in chains.Racial purity is the law. Authorities deport, imprison, and send people of color to slaughterhouses and labor camps, tearing families apart. Only those with visible European ancestry may serve the regime that has stripped them of their rights.Women are little more than assets. Fertility, beauty, and obedience measure their worth. The regime labels and sorts them-wives, mistresses, workers-their voices stripped, their bodies controlled. Dissent means death.Claire, once a bold investigative journalist, now hides behind a new name and false obedience inside the Good Woman Bunkhouse, an indoctrination facility where women are broken and rebuilt for service. There, she meets Lexi-quiet, unshakable, a transgender woman whose mere existence defies the regime's rigid order. A bond forms. A fire is lit.When the regime assigns Claire to the estate of Jed Davis-a brutal official with a cold, devout wife and four mistresses hidden in his basement-she sees her chance to strike from within. Jed's wife, Eleanor, clings to her carefully crafted world of faith and control, until something within her fractures.Beyond the regime's reach, Isabella-a fearless Hispanic resistance leader and U.S. veteran-fights to reunite families, including her own, and ignite a revolution.Each woman is caged by her circumstances. Each carries secrets and scars. But together, they become the spark that sets the nation ablaze.The Good Woman's Rebellion is a gripping, emotionally charged dystopian novel about resilience, sisterhood, and the unstoppable power of women who refuse to be erased. Perfect for readers of The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and Women Talking-this is the story of what happens when the silenced rise.

• ISBN: 9781962490078
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Haute Books Ink