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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Arrival
Chapter 2: Behind Closed Doors
Chapter 3: Shadows of Discipline
Chapter 4: The Invisible Cage
Chapter 5: Fallout Protocol
Chapter 6: Between the Lines
Chapter 7: The Unseen Eye
Chapter 8: Breaking Point
Chapter 9: The Flashpoint
Chapter 10: The Eye of the Storm
Chapter 11: Ghost Protocols
Chapter 12: The Compass Rises
Chapter 13: Geneva Echoes
Chapter 14: Fractured Trust
Chapter 15: Smoke and Scars
Chapter 16: Daughter of the Republic
Chapter 17: The Safehouse Siege
Chapter 18: Fires of the Founders
Chapter 19: Letters Never Sent
Chapter 20: A Father’s Reckoning
Chapter 21: The Fall of the Badge
Chapter 22: Broken Chains
Chapter 23: False Calm
Chapter 24: The Hunted and the Herald
Chapter 25: Last Gasp of the Old Guard
Chapter 26: The Glass Room
Chapter 27: Love in the Fireline
Chapter 28: Operation Reflection
Chapter 29: The Monroe Doctrine Rewritten
Chapter 30: Crossfire
Chapter 31: When Truth Bleeds
Chapter 32: Exile or Exposure
Chapter 33: The First Step
Chapter 34: A Daughter’s Blueprints
Chapter 35: The Wedding Without Cameras
Chapter 36: Winds of Change
Chapter 37: Declassification
Chapter 38: Mariana’s Memoirs
Chapter 39: The First Building
Chapter 40: Still Ours
Chapter 41: Abigail’s architectural institute launches
Chapter 42: Nathaniel teaches a course on integrity in service
Chapter 43: Elizabeth visits for a holiday—tense, but healing
Chapter 44: Their first child is born.
Chapter 45: They visit Geneva, walking where it all began
Chapter 46: Mariana wins a Pulitzer
Chapter 47: Nathaniel receives an anonymous threat. They confront it calmly
Chapter 48: Abigail gives a TED Talk that becomes a cultural moment
Chapter 49: The Jefferson tree is declared a protected monument
Chapter 50: Abigail and Nathaniel, now older, sit in a garden. Their child runs in the distance. Abigail sketches a new building—not for resistance, but for hope
Epilogue: Roots Remember
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Chapter 33: The First Step
Snow had started to melt in crooked lines across the Vermont hills. Trees stood like skeletal witnesses to the quiet thaw, their branches bare but waiting, always waiting. Inside the modest farmhouse that had become their sanctuary, a fire crackled steadily in the stone hearth, casting flickers of g...