The Red State/Blue State Confessions is a two-volume dystopian series set in the very near future in Kansas and Massachusetts. The United States has essentially split into two different countries. Stacey Davenport fights back against a regime that is quickly reducing women to concubinage in Kansas. Even as a motorcycle gang, deputized as religious police, rounds up the designated women, Stacey starts a political campaign to overthrow the regime. But Stacey's initial victory does not really change the status quo on the ground in certain parts of Kansas. Now, while Stacey fights for the legal right to keep her unborn baby girl, her sister must risk her life in a daring rescue attempt. Derivative as it is of dystopian novels such as The Handmaid's Tale, this novel is set just at the point where dystopia is not quite at hand and people still have a chance to resist. But the resisters must first overcome their own weaknesses and the many strains of dysfunction in their own families. The compromises Stacey made to gain her first great victory still haunt her, and they pose a huge stumbling block to reunion with the father of her child.