The Paper Republic

The government has returned. It brought medicine, mail, and a ledger.

Sixteen years after the pandemic, forty-three survivors have made Hanford into something more than a refuge. It is their home.

Then a federal convoy arrives outside the wire.

The Republic offers antibiotics manufactured that year, restored roads, working factories, and recognition from the country rising out of the ruins. All Hanford must do is certify its settlement, register its residents, and accept the authority of the provisional government.

But recognition comes with classifications. Names are marked by skill. Settlements that refuse disappear from the network. And the Republic has come looking for a classified continuity reserve that may still be hidden beneath Hanford.

Graham Morgan has spent sixteen years protecting his people from hunger, disease, raiders, and war. Now he faces an enemy he cannot defeat by closing the gate.

As winter traps the delegation outside Hanford's wire, altered records begin to surface, military traffic bypasses civilian authority, and Graham realizes the Republic is not merely counting his people.

It is deciding which of them are useful.

To survive, Hanford's residents must do something they have never done before: write down who belongs, what their leader may command, and what no government may take without their consent.

Because if their community is going to survive the Republic, they may have to become one.

The Paper Republic is Book Thirteen in the bestselling Graham's Resolution post-apocalyptic survival series.