There are many other characters, as well as the book being told from different view points, which helped the reader get insight as well as move the story along quickly. Lena and Warren end up meeting and joining together on the same fight, even if it is begrudgingly. She ultimately wants to help her people, since she was smuggled out of Texas as a child. She happens to be dating the President of the United States' son Will, who most people believe is to further her cause. Lena is a spokes-person for the Free Texas movement, wanting America to help the people of Texas rebuild what they destroyed with the bomb. All Warren wants is to find his brother and return to his predictable happy life.
He discovers his 16 year old genius brother Lucas has been abducted from his mother's apartment, causing Warren to trace Lucas' steps to find why and who has taken him. Warren, the main character, is a laid back 18 year old who lives in an apartment while attending college. The book is set in the present day, with the same technology and issues we have now, but with an internal conflict with Texas, instead of being unified. They are aggressive in what they want as well as how they go about to get it, causing the Texas kingdom/capitol to be bombed by America roughly 18 years before hand. Texas is now a Monarchy, run by the Wilde family. Texas, as well as some of its territories such as California and Arizona, have succeeded from the United States back in the 1800's (I think). The story tells an alternate history of the United States, where one small change caused an entire shift in what we know about history. Going to work was near impossible, and sleep is overrated anyway. Once I started reading I was hooked and could not put it down.
Yes, I know not to judge a book by its cover, but I was lured in by the blue storm clouds and the sign for entering the Texas Empire.
I absolutely loved this book! I will admit that the first thing that appealed to me was the cover.
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