James Chesterton
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Thriller
James Chesterton is the author of Ashes of the Republic and Holding Patterns, a financial crime thriller inspired by his thirty years in the banking industry. A graduate of Hunter College in Manhattan, he began his career teaching high school English before earning an MBA from the University of Connecticut and transitioning into corporate banking. Chesterton writes speculative and political thrillers that probe the fragility of democracy and the moral questions shaping America’s future. He lives in New England with his wife in their newly empty nest.
James Chesterton's books
Genres: Dystopian, Thriller, Humour & Satire
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
The year is 2046. Freedom is extinct. Faith is law. And one woman’s impossible pregnancy could ignite a revolution. The United States has devolved from a thriving democracy into a Christian nationalist surveillance state—where elections are theater, dissent is erased, and women’s bodies are monitored by the government. Lily Osbourne has learned how to keep her head down. Then, while passing through Colorado Springs airport, everything shatters when a TSA agent informs her she is pregnant—and assigns her fetus a Social Security number. Lily is on a contraception guaranteed to be effective for twenty years, so the only way this is possible is if she took the pill that opens a temporary window of fertility. But she doesn’t even own one, which means someone chose for her. As Lily and her partner, Jeff Maslow, search for answers, they are drawn into the orbit of Iwanna Dennison—the president’s ruthless daughter—and a...