Does that star-spangled banner yet wave ...

One hundred years from now, America is a very different place. Central authority has collapsed. Infrastructure has broken down. Science and learning are slipping away.

... o'er the land of the free ...

The northeast survives as a collection of independent city-states called freeholds. The freeholds keep to themselves. No one dares to cross the no-man's-land between them, territory infested with the horrors of this new world—eaters and skeeters, bleeders and bogeys.

... and the home of the brave?

No one ... until the summer night when a stranger arrives at Brighton Freehold, having crossed ten klicks of untamed ground. He comes with a warning. A great army from the south is on the march, destroying everything it finds. And the struggling seaside community of Brighton, hard-pressed by famine and pox, is next in its path.

Even in a future without hope, there is a place for courage. For resistance. And for one last desperate stand ...

In the year 2125

2125, a thirty thousand word novella, is the latest from New York Times and USA Today bsetselling author Michael Prescott.