Christopher Stires

Meet McKenna Alexander, clear-headed TV-reporter, and her drunken, womanizing, gambling ex-husband, Cullen Davis, the future president of the Confederacy. That’s right—or at least that’s the plan in this relentlessly interesting alternate history tale.

For connoisseurs of the alternate history genre, Rebel Nation delivers from the very beginning. In a fantastic double set up, Ulysses S. Grant meets an untimely demise, leading to the survival of the Confederacy. Almost two hundred years later comes the bombing death of a famed civil rights leader, which triggers rioting and revolution until McKenna and Cullen enter the picture. These two lovers fight and duel, but of course, are destined to be reconciled. At least long enough to solve the mystery.

Rebel Nation has enough decadent wealth, courage, weakness, vengeance, hate, family conspiracies and other juicy human indulgences to hook you and keep you reading. Alternate history is a tough genre to write—it requires a peculiar kind of imagination, but Christopher Stires creates active scenes and concrete details that make his story unexpectedly believable.

Rebel Nation is an interesting, challenging tale that deftly conceals a deliciously unexpected villian until the grand finale. It’s a story you can sink your teeth into. A thumping good read.… (plus d'informations)