Leia DiAngeles’s first experience of terrorism was losing both her parents at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. Twenty years later, she is an FBI counterterrorism analyst hunting a right-wing extremist group and the terrorist who does its dirty work, a man called The Butcher. When a traffic camera finally snaps a photo of The Butcher’s face, Leia is horrified to discover that the boogeyman she’s been chasing is actually a decorated American soldier who has been tortured, brainwashed, and ultimately forced to do a terrorist organization’s evil bidding. When Leia’s findings land her in the enemy’s crosshairs, she joins forces with the man she saved, Sergeant James “Jamie” Goldt, in a desperate bid to dismantle the organization that destroyed his life, prevent any further attack on an America on the brink of civil war, and rescue the prisoners still suffering in the bowels of a Washington, D.C. prison…even if it means taking on tyrants inside the government Leia dedicated her life to serving, tyrants who would go so far as to create a fake terrorist organization and commit very real acts of violence to achieve their wicked goals.

Patriots’ Dance is at once a love story and a political thriller, a historical fiction novel and a philosophical treatise. Set in one of the most divisive moments in American history and depicting the world as it was under the shadows of the 2020 election, the January 6th protest, the COVID-19 pandemic, the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the twenty-year anniversary of both the deadliest terror attack in American history and the inception of the War on Terror, Patriots’ Dance dares to offer a voice to thousands of Americans who were silenced and asks the very uncomfortable question: in an age when words are redefined constantly, who are the patriots and who are the tyrants?