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Advance readers for The Secret Passage, a Grant Monroe political thriller.

In Washington, one of the most dangerous things you can do is notice and not be silent.

Grant Monroe is an Assistant Doorkeeper of the United States Senate: close enough to power to know its rhythms, young enough to still believe the institution can be saved. Then a tie vote holds the chamber open past midnight, and Grant sees something he was never meant to see.

Genre: political thriller · Book 1 of Beneath the Capitol Dome
Launch: November 16, 2027
Reading window: advance copies go out September 21, 2027, eight weeks before launch.

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The Secret Passage by Scott Trendell, Book 1 of Beneath the Capitol Dome

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