America The Obliged Civil War Announced

 America: The Obliged has been out since February, and has evoked a flippant-if-not-eerie take on America under twenty years of fascist rule. 

Love or hate Trump, or whether you admire or loathe the events of the first six months of his administration, one thing that America: The Obliged was tantamount about was the inescapable similarities of events in today's America with one existent in 2044. 

These uncanny similarities led America: The Obliged, also called ATO among fans, to peg a medal for Dystopian Alternate History Award this past Spring at the 2025 Bookfest Awards. 

But what's next?

Well, as part of an evolving trilogy, ATO now goes on to the next phase in the collapse of American democracy with America The Obliged Civil War. 




Taking place a year after [SPOILERS] Alyssa is catapulted to the presidency of the rag-tag makeshift Federated States, the nation finds itself grinding against a reluctant military force across the deep South in Adam Reddon's New Confederacy, which the Federation deems illegitimate despite its propensity to win adoration from foreign dignitaries. To the West of Omaha, a darling of the far-right fundamentalist Christians, Pastor Wetzel Harmony, is busy making his own nation based around the principles of the Holy Bible, attracting scores of detractors from both the New Confederacy and the Federation alike. The question remains how an elusive pastor of a small church from Kansas is funding the construction of his marvelous temple to Jesus Christ and who exactly is propping up the so-called Exodus movement. Alyssa is desperate to win the war, but is she desperate enough to do what needs done to claim the victory she desperately needs?

America The Obliged Civil War is due out in Winter 2026, a year after the release of America: The Obliged. If you haven't read the original book in the trilogy the eBook edition is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble for $5.99 while the softcover edition can be scored for discounted price at the ODiscin Bookstore for just $14.99.


 

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