Rushmore Chronicles: Book Two (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798182208772)

The Rushmore Chronicles - Book II: Where Quill Pens Were Held

The portal closes. The granite falls silent. And when Thomas and Marie open their eyes, the year is 1787.
Philadelphia. Independence Hall. The air thick with candle wax, ink, and the held breath of a nation about to be born.
They are not tourists here. They are not even strangers. The corridor of light that took them through Mount Rushmore did not deliver them by accident - it delivered them on purpose. Because the Founding Fathers are about to sign a Constitution that will shape two and a half centuries of American life... and Thomas, a retired civil servant from Colorado, knows every place that document will one day bend, break, and bleed.
He knows what the courts will become. He knows what the judges will trade.
He knows the quiet rot that two hundred years of politics will work into the marrow of justice.
And he knows something the men in that room could never imagine: that one day, a mind without ambition, without bribe, without fear - a mind made of light and logic - could sit beside human conscience and weigh the scales without flinching.
So Thomas does the only thing a good civil servant can do when handed an impossible second chance.
He raises his hand.. He asks to be heard.
And in a hush so complete that the quill pens themselves seem to lean in, two retirees from the twenty-first century begin to whisper a warning into the cradle of the Republic.
Marie holds his hand. History holds its breath.
For readers who loved the moral weight of A Man Called Ove, the time-bending wonder of 11/22/63, and the patriotic heart of National Treasure - Book II is the reckoning Book I promised.
A Constitution about to be signed.. A future already broken.
A retired couple with one impossible chance to bend the arc of justice - before the ink dries.
Some travelers cross oceans. Some cross centuries. The Rushmore couple crossed both - and what they whisper in Philadelphia will echo all the way home.
The Founders are listening. So is history.

Author: Thomas J. Larsen,A. G. Larsen
ISBN-13: 9798182208772
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2026
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d