The Shattered State
The Shattered State by Megan Bledsoe is a near-future dystopian thriller about the collapse of control and the reclaiming of human sovereignty.
The High State’s once enviable facade crumbles along with public trust.
The administration doesn’t care. Acting with a violence it cannot justify and a logic without heart, it uses its power to force compliance: Biometric Tracking. Surveillance drones. Digital ID. And a paramilitary to keep everyone “safe.”
Our ten citizens realize they live in a shattered state: The wealthy mother of three now lies on the concrete floor of an Integrity Center unable to convince the guards she’s a citizen. The creator of Vital Trace must change the health and safety program into an automated enforcement system. The boy with a broken arm learns the president’s latest administrative order means he can no longer ride his bike.
The world as they know it is ending, but the system is still running on the momentum of a lie. Recognizing it for what it is before it’s too late to escape depends on summoning the courage to ask one question:
How do you reclaim your sovereignty from a system that denies you even have any?
Survive the second stage of an unraveling world in THE SHATTERED STATE, Book Two of The Epoch Rite of Passage Trilogy—a near-future dystopian thriller for fans of 1984 who wish it had ended another way.
Arriving November 2026.
Ebook Available for Preorder Now.
(Hardcover option coming soon.)
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Books in the Trilogy
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The Epoch Rite of Passage trilogy was born from my exploration of the collective, three-stage “Rite of Passage” we all seem to be going through. I’ve curated a list of books that speak to these three stages. It’s a list of essential dystopian satirical reads I’m calling The Sovereignty Library. If you’re ready—or want to be ready—to move beyond the chaos and explore the themes that can help us build a new future, I’d love to share it with you.