After getting the green light from her network to launch an investigative news show, Erica flies to Bismarck, North Dakota, to investigate Take Back Our Homeland, the largest secessionist group. What she finds is profoundly disturbing â a growing threat to the future of our union.
Back home, her husband Greg is drinking more and talking lessâand taking an unusual interest in the glamorous author Leslie Burke Wilson. Ericaâs teenage daughter has also begun acting out in troubling ways.
Then she discovers a potential informant murdered in her Bismarck hotel. Take Back Our Homeland might be even more dangerous than she had thoughtâand sheâs unwittingly become one of the key players in the story. Her fear and anxiety escalate â for her marriage, her daughter, and her own life.
Bestselling novelist and former legal analyst for Fox News Lis Wiehl takes us behind the anchorâs desk in this gripping look at high-stakes reporting in a country torn apart.
âBREAKING NEWS! Lis Wiehl has written another blockbusterâusing her insiderâs eye to nail the dangerous mix of media and politics. The Separatists is bold, timely, thrilling and a simply stunning read.â --Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author
âPolitical high jinks and unusual escapades always mark a Lis Wiehl novel. Eric Sparks is a highly trained, top-notched, alpha-female âtotally reminiscent of her creator. This one is a smart, sexy, reflective read and I highly recommend it."
--Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author
New York Times bestselling author Lis Wiehl is the former legal analyst for Fox News and the OâReilly Factor and has appeared regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and the Imus morning shows. The former cohost of WOR radio's WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl, she has served as legal analyst and reporter for NBC News and NPR's All Things Considered, as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's office, and as a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. She appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst.
Sebastian Stuart has published four novels under his own name, including The Hour Between, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award and an NPR Seasonâs Readings selection. He has also co-written national and New York Times bestselling books. As senior editor of e-book publisher New Word City, Stuart has written over two dozen original non-fiction e-books.