Chainsaw Delilah and Good Trouble: A Novel of the Owl Rebellion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798246601242)

Chainsaw Delilah and Good Trouble

It has been eight years since the Moon Gang tried to change the world. In the aftermath of the Owl Rebellion, fear swung the pendulum hard in the other direction. People demanded order, safety, and certainty, and they voted for it. What they got was the Authority, a Christian nationalist party that promised protection and delivered a police state.

The fascists don't call it fascism anymore. They don't need to. The system is boring now, enforced by a polite police force called S.N.O.W. that smiles while it destroys your life, quietly, selectively, and always with paperwork.

The first rebellion belonged to Alice Moon, a kid who became a symbol and then a warning. The Authority erased her name from classrooms and news feeds, but the story never really died. It just went underground, waiting for someone reckless enough to believe it again.

Delilah never knew Alice Moon or the original Moon Gang, but she studied their story in fragments online, the parts the Authority forgot to erase. What radicalized her wasn't rage; it was empathy. She saw what happened to people who couldn't fight back, and she decided she would. Armed with a nickname bigger than she is and a .22 pistol strapped to her thigh, she's trying to make noise in a world trained to stay quiet.

Terror has become background noise. As attacks ripple across the country and the media blames old ghosts in order to maintain order, Delilah and her teenage friends have been planning in the margins for months. Trained by experienced rebels who have been part of the movement since its earliest days, they prepare to strike at the systems the Authority depends on to stay in power.

Hunted by S.N.O.W. and forced to stay moving, Delilah crisscrosses Florida, fighting back while learning how to survive without a fixed place to land. Each encounter sharpens her reputation and tightens the net around her. As the Authority closes in, she joins the underground rebels known as the Nobodies and Good Trouble, a former graffiti crew turned resistance network. No longer operating alone, Delilah fights alongside them, turning flight into strategy and survival into something organized.

What began almost a decade earlier as a few teenagers drinking cough syrup around a fire on school nights, daring to imagine a different world, has grown into something far more dangerous. The movement the Authority tried to erase has matured, spread, and learned how to endure. Chainsaw Delilah and Good Trouble is a relentless, pulse-pounding story about what happens when fear stops working and rebellion stops fading quietly.

Part Two of "A Boy Named Alice."

The Owl Rebellion continues.

Author: Kayla Bush,Gunner Bush
ISBN-13: 9798246601242
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2026
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d