For three hundred years, the Concord has ruled from the shadows-a cabal of mages embedded in the highest echelons of government, reshaping legislation and national destiny through ritual and whispered amendments. Presidents have served them. Senators have bowed to them. The Constitution itself has been rewritten in candlelit chambers beneath the Capitol.

Until one president discovers the truth.

Now, caught between exposure and complicity, they face an impossible choice: dismantle the system that holds the nation together, or join the conspiracy and betray everything they swore to protect. But the Concord doesn't negotiate with threats-it eliminates them. And they've already begun their move toward a coup that would dissolve both government and magic into chaos.

To survive, the president must become something they never imagined: a player in a game where arcane law supersedes constitutional law, where every backroom deal conceals a blood ritual, and where the balance of power isn't measured in votes but in centuries of accumulated magical debt. One wrong move doesn't just end a presidency. It unravels the hidden architecture that has kept America from tearing itself apart.

In the shadows beneath power, the real government is about to go to war with itself. And this time, the stakes aren't just political-they're existential.