Main Characters

                                        CHARACTERS:

Rebekah Edwards

Race: Caucasian

Age: 35

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 135

Hair: auburn

Eyes: almond

Identifying marks: none

Bio: As a spouse of Atlanta's mayor, the political wife has had a front row seat watching the business of politics at its best--and its worst. From the outside, she appears to have it all: money, jewelry, power as only a politician's wife could enjoy. But Rebekah is barren, and chafing under the strain of her wifely duties--she's growing increasingly weary of her husband's influence. With a crucial summit on the horizon--and the porous border with Tennessee not far away--her chance at freedom is finally near--but will she take it?

Mayor Charles Edwards:

Age: 40
Height: 5'7

Weight: 150

Eyes: Green

Hair: Auborn

Identifying marks: None

Bio: A rising star in the "moderate" wing of the SCR's fundamentalist single-party state, Edwards is the youngest politician to assume office in the cosmopolitan--and diverse city of Atlanta. Despite his youth and good looks, his tenure is anything but a honeymoon. With dissention in the ranks and hard-liners in the federal and state government threatening to replace him, his political future--to say nothing of his life--is anything but certain. To make matters worse, his marriage is straining under the weight of his wife's depression.

With crisis at home and abroad, Mayor Edwards is crossing his fingers and hoping that the upcoming summit provides the political cover he needs to make a run for the presidential palace across the street and reinvigorate his private life at the same time. But will he pull it off?