ORPHANS EVADE THE AUTHORITIES

In 2034, ten years after the election of an authoritarian government, a breakaway region of the
United States, plus Alberta, Canada (USAC), is in economic ruin and its people are sharply
oppressed. Sixteen-year-old twin telepaths, talented violinists, abandoned when their anti-
government parents barely escaped arrest, help others escape to the United States and Canada,
while avoiding arrest. With that experience, and with a fake UK diplomat providing cover, they
head to Budapest, Hungary to rescue their parents. Here their stories collide with an orphaned
Ukrainian surrogate mother fleeing a Russian invasion with her infant American telepath twins.
Barely escaping Budapest, the twins realize that only a revolution will allow their parents to
come home.