State of Affairs: A First Household Novel

The cellphone name that modified their lives ceaselessly…

Minutes after Vice President Nick Cappuano and Lt. Sam Holland get the decision that President Nelson has been discovered lifeless within the residence on Thanksgiving, they’re nonetheless processing that Nick has been requested to return to the White Home to take the oath of workplace.

As they undergo the motions to make sure a peaceable transition of energy, Sam has 1,000,000 and one considerations about her husband, her household, the Nelson household, the nation and the enormity of what Nick is about to tackle. Behind her thoughts is one other main concern: What does this imply for my job? No different first woman in historical past has held a job outdoors the White Home, however she’s decided to be the primary, to blaze new trails for individuals who will observe her. Nevertheless, as a way to try this, she rapidly realizes that compromises should be made to proceed working as a Murder detective.

Their lives turn out to be a direct firestorm of conferences, requests for interviews, tough questions from their kids and a bunch of potential landmines to navigate as they make the transition from second household to first household. An surprising challenge with a diplomatic journey to Iran rapidly thrusts Nick into the thick of his new tasks whereas Sam confronts a homicide investigation which will have ties to a chilly case from fifteen years in the past.

As every part round them spins uncontrolled, Sam and Nick take refuge with one another, counting on their unbreakable bond to see them via the storm.