An Inconvenient President

Eleanor Voss's life is the rhythmic lurch between briefings and after-hours triage. She can make a joke sound like policy, a denial sound like comfort - but the jokes stop landing when the President declares "Economic Independence Day," orders money redesigned with his portrait, and decides the calendar needs a thirteenth month. Each morning she wakes to a new small catastrophe and a pile of color-coded folders that must be made to mean something.

With dark humor and an unblinking eye for the machinery behind headlines, this novel follows Eleanor as she trades good faith for survival, allies for alliances, and sleep for contingency statements. The West Wing's cast - an iron-general, a crooked fixer, a constitutional scholar who keeps trying to stitch the country back together - are both comic and tragic. As the spin tightens, Eleanor must ask: how far will she go to save a nation that no longer recognizes itself?

Funny, sharp, and humane, this is a story about the absurdity of power and the people who stand between spectacle and ruin.