2028 — A Novel in Three Books, by J. A. Fenwick

No tanks in the streets. No midnight arrests. A notice in the mail, correctly filed, with a reply-by date.

In the Concord Union, the takeover arrives the way everything official arrives — on letterhead. An insurance clerk watches the exceptions stack up at her counter. A benefits officer is handed a one-page attestation and thirty days to decide what his signature is worth. An organizer counts heads in a church basement. A reporter keeps her notes on paper, for reasons she keeps to herself. A lieutenant in the Concord Guard believes in the tables because she checks them herself. A delegate near the end of his last term rereads an oath he swore forty years ago. And a man with no politics at all does business with whoever’s signing.

Nobody burns anything down. They process it.

2028 follows seven ordinary lives through four years of a country being quietly re-filed — toward the election that will decide whether what was taken on paper can be taken back the same way. If it’s held at all.