The Empress Ruby - Softcover

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Get ready! The U.S. Presidential election season has rolled around again! This time, though, may be the last.Election Day 2024 is fast approaching and the First Lady's glittering Royal Ball is set to take place at the White House even as the capital is beseiged by millions of people camping on the National Mall. They're planning a visit to the White House and it won't be a cordial one.A Yale professor connects a ruby stolen in the sixteenth century from a cursed Burmese temple with the collapses of the Spanish Empire, the French Empire, the Mexican Empire of Maximilian and Carlotta, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Third Reich. Will America be the next to fall?Corporal Miguel Morales, a decorated war hero and Marine Guard posted at the White House, takes on a challenging mission that will affect the fate of the nation.The U.S. is reeling under a barrage of tectonic disasters. Washington's political elites are overdue for a thorough-going purge. Class warfare--complete with torches and pitchforks-- is about to break out. A cabal of crafty oligarchs plots with the country's most popular talk-show host. Their targets: a clueless President and a First Lady under the spell of a latter-day Rasputin.See the U.S. of the future, divided as never before, and Morales under pressure, racing against time with his team to save the nation and fulfill his mission!

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