Silver Key

The war is won. The country is not.

Pinecrest, Year 106. The soldiers have not been paid, the farmers are being ruined by debt, and thirteen provinces that fought side by side now tax each other like foreign states. A tired general lays down his sword. A frail scholar locks fifty-five delegates in a hall with the windows nailed shut. A tutor in the south builds a machine that will make a fortune and change a thousand lives, and no one asks what it will cost. A young diplomat carries a silver key he does not understand. And two brilliant men, once friends, begin the quarrel that will divide the republic for generations.

Silver Key is the third book of The Chronicles of the New Frontier, an epic that retells the American story as a possible future: Earth is the Old World, Mars is the New World, and the history is hidden in riddles, symbols, and echoes waiting to be found. Each book ends with an afterword that shows how the story echoes real events.

SERIES DESCRIPTION
The Chronicles of the New Frontier is a twelve-book epic that begins today and follows two worlds forward together. The planets are real. Everything else is new. Readers who know American history will find the echoes; readers who do not will find a story about what a country is, and what it costs to make one.