During the Second Civil War, a new U.S. political party called the Family Protection Movement established The Divide, which separates Normal people from those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Seventeen-year old Serenity Blackwater lives in the normal Midwestern town of Mapleville, but she is not normal. She hacks into an illegal gay chat room and meets Dawn, a lesbian who lives in a gay community less than a mile away. Serenity discovers normal people can bribe their way inside the walls and decides to go, both to meet Dawn and check out what may be her future home. Dawn is even more beautiful than Serenity hoped, and the two soon become a couple. But Serenity only has a few months before she must take the Normal Verification Test, and then she’ll be separated from her family forever. So she joins the Human Equality Organization, an underground group working to end The Divide. Dawn thinks the rebellion is too dangerous, and since Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Malaki is also a member, Serenity doesn’t tell Dawn about her involvement. Serenity reveals to the HEO that her parents are leading a campaign to organize attacks on all Gay Communities. With her help, the HEO creates Project Jericho, in which all Gay Communities walls will implode at once. But after too many delays, and when Dawn discovers Serenity has been spending more time with Malaki than her, Serenity knows she has to start the revolution herself. She heads to D.C. to contact a group of senators secretly against The Divide ... or straight into a trap set by the Family Protection Movement.

Uprising

“They skip a lot of things in US History. They say this country was founded by God, and that everyone migrated here for religious freedom. They make it sound like there were never any major problems in our country until Civil War Two.”


“But that is what happened, isn’t it?” I asked. “I mean, we helped win the World Wars, but our nation has always been a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.”


“Why did we fight Civil War One, Serenity?” Adam asked quietly, with kind eyes.


I shrugged. “Civil War 1 was fought because the South wanted to become a secular nation, and the North wanted to maintain the Christian principles our nation was founded upon.” History was one of my best subjects.


“They didn’t teach you anything about racism or civil rights, did they?” Adam said.


Chapter 17