Madam President: "This is not a drill."

Molly Cartwright never wanted the job her father pushed her into, and she assumed his defeat in the election would free her from it. Instead, James Cartwright wins, and after his wife's death he persuades her to take the vice presidency and move into the White House with him. Six years in, their agenda is moving forward until a speech is cut short by Secret Service agents who rush her offstage. Within hours Molly learns of a devastating loss, is sworn in as president, and must find the traitors inside her own government while keeping the country from a war. Pressure mounts from rival staff, a missing aide, threats aimed at her, and her own plan to draw the enemy into the open. The story follows a new president who must grieve as she governs.