In a near-future, the United States of America is fractured by political strife and racial tensions, Congressman Jasper Thorne emerges as a beacon of defiance in the storm of unrest. As a shadowy cabal orchestrates a socialist revolution and a new law threatens to dismantle the Constitution, Jasper fights back, running for governor of South Carolina on a platform of state's rights. But when the state legislature votes to secede in the middle of his campaign, he's thrust into a deadly game of political espionage focused on control of the state. Against a backdrop of a nation on the brink of civil war, Jasper must play a game he cannot afford to lose, even if the price of winning the election is his very soul and the lives of those he loves."Palmetto Rising" is a story of defiance, personal redemption, and finding faith and love when all else seems lost.