As Kinnie Whitfield stares out the bedroom window of her farm house in Maine, all she can see is snow and darkness. The blizzard she can handle even if the weather forecasters are predicting two brutal storms back-to-back, shutting down and isolating New England from the world. Kinnie’s a married woman with an unemployed spouse she no longer loves and autistic twin sons she adores. She is an Army veteran who served her country as a sniper in Afghanistan. Now she supports her family driving a snow plow. Good money, vital money, this time of year. But squinting into the blurred blackness of the first Nor’easter, she can’t know that within a few  hours, while she is plowing out the parking lot of the local bank, agents of the FBI and Immigration will be surrounding her home, her  husband will be committing suicide, ending her life as she knows it and taking her two sons to the grave with him.

It is January 2012. The primary season is about to begin leading to the election of a new administration. The nation is asunder, divided along angry political lines. Angry and  violent. Conservative militias take up arms. Radio talk show hosts encourage insurrection. Blue states. Red states. Threats are made against the life of the incumbent president. With unemployment remaining high and benefits ceasing, desperate people take to the streets. Leading the charge towards change, stirring the masses, enjoying her notoriety and oblivious to her own evident shortcomings,  ex-candidate for vice president Becky Martin arrives in Maine just in time for the nation’s first primary. She is not alone, for there are those in the shadows who dislike her as much as they detest the sitting president and will kill her to stop her from replacing him.

Rich Francoeur is a Boston sports reporter with no political interests or entanglements. A former high school classmate of Kinnie’s, he has no idea that his wife is cheating on him, that his best friend has just been murdered or that his mother has kept secret from him her own past of violence and revolution. Drawn back to Maine in the path of the storm and in the wake of two deaths, he finds Kinnie Whitfield just as others are intent on using her skills with a rifle and her anger at the world to assassinate presidential candidate Becky Martin.

ASUNDER may be the future of America if this country does not realize political change soon. Even the most astute and rational of us may resort to violence if there are no other choices. Violence driven by hatred and vengeance, fear and the will to survive at all costs. Kinnie Whitfield has faced the worst any woman can. Rich Francoeur is about to see his paranoia come to life. Both lives may be torn asunder by enemies waiting for them in the darkness and in the storm.