In the wake of a violent assassination of the President of the United States, a surprising new leader emerges. The Vice President to take the helm is no ordinary second in command. She is the first female to rise to lead the free world. Can Barbara Burton-James elevate the office in the midst of scandal and murder? The Presidency: A Woman's Struggles is the debut work of romantic fiction by author Jack P. Bender that imagines a world where an uncommon woman must face deceit, treachery and unknown adversaries within the Oval Office. Readers with a taste for the steamy side of contemporary politics will be riveted by this hot-blooded thriller, where one woman must brave the minefield of males who surround her in order to restore order in a chaotic world. The story opens on the January 20th Inauguration Day for the forty-fifth President of the United States of America, marking the ascendancy of a second African-American President whose sweeping success follows the heels of the election of President Barack Obama. However, as Charles W. Thornton prepares to assume the mantle, his life is violently cut short by an assassin. In the ensuing turmoil, the Vice President Burton-James immediately takes charge to calm a frantic nation. What she could never suspect is that those in her own ranks have played a cruel hand in her new fate. As her husband and an investigator become deeply entwined in the events, the President finds herself confronting perilous pitfalls and intricate plots she never could have fathomed. And, when her Chief of Staff Jeffrey Kairns is revealed to have his own sinister agenda, it looks like the entire administration is implicated in the assassination. As the new President becomes the subject of controversy and suspicion, can she clear her name with her own staff's hand in the nefarious doings? First, she must learn exactly what went down that fateful Inauguration Day, and at whose bidding. With blood-pumping intrigue, razor-sharp political game-playing and plenty of hot-blooded romance, The Presidency: A Woman's Struggles takes a lurid peak inside the vaunted halls of American government to expose the ambition and lust that taint men--and where a woman may be the right man for the job. It's a must read for anyone who has ever wondered what it would really be like with a woman in the White House, and what that would mean for the men who surround her.
About the Author: Author Jack P. Bender is retired from Bender, Inc., a printing business named for him. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Previously, in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, he was a publisher and a managing editor of newspapers and magazines on a community level. After a hiatus from writing for a number of years, Bender now begins his new career with the publication of his first novel, The Presidency: A Woman's Struggles. He also has a book about baseball, Lester Nicholls: A Pitcher's Story, that is currently in the publication process.