The SHADOW CABINET: Sovereign Paradox, Book II

She exposed the conspiracy. Now she's running for president to destroy it. The conspiracy is glad she's running. Eighteen months after the Capitol Directive, Senator Evelyn Marsh is running for the highest office in the land - taking the fight from the Senate floor to the campaign trail. Her mentor maps every move. Her strategist follows the money. And the shadow network she wounded does not try to stop her. It lets her run. Because the architects never needed her to lose. They needed her to run. The closer she gets to the nomination, the more her campaign serves a design she cannot see - a treaty being rewritten in private rooms, a vice-presidential candidate being chosen for reasons no one will explain, a system that turns every victory into a mechanism. The trap isn't the election. The trap is what comes after. She wins. The victory was the trap. THE SHADOW CABINET is the second novel of The Sovereign Paradox, Kapil Gupta's political-thriller trilogy about who really writes the rules of power - and the price of learning the answer.