Set 30 years in the future, Times of Trouble is a gripping tale where the U.S. government has turned into a tyranny. Government agencies known as the EPA and TSA have grown extremely powerful and take away freedoms many Americans have known for more than 200 years.

Told in first person point of view, Brian Atwood, our main character, is a field agent for the FBI in Omaha. His work involves mostly cyber terrorism and actual cases of potential real world terrorism. His wife gives birth to their third child, who has Down’s Syndrome, and this unfortunately does not please the U.S. Health Administration. There are rules and regulations set-up in cases like these to prevent “genetic freaks” as they like to call them, from sucking up a lot of Health Admin money. Because the Atwoods are born again Christians, they never considered aborting the baby, so the Health people take him away from them.

Meanwhile, the Secret Service decides to recruit Brian to be the personal agent of POTUS because of his great work with terrorism involving Offutt Air Force Base. Brian’s faith is tested every day as he deals with a man with no visible morals. He is tested even more when his wife finds out that she’s dying from a fast-growing breast cancer. Trouble in the rest of the world occurs as Iran attempts to nuke Israel, which fails spectacularly, so Israel takes care of the problem. This brings condemnation from everyone, including the United States, which takes Iran’s side.

When the re-election of POTUS doesn’t turn out the way he wanted it, he and his people declare the election nullified because of “irregularities” with the ballots. POTUS claims the new President-elect may take the seat sometime in the middle of next year. POTUS purges his staff of what he considers unloyal people, including Brian. At the same time, he loses his wife, but regains the son he thought he had lost.

Join Brian as he moves back to his family home in Nebraska, watches as the country slowly falls apart, and sees the End Times approach.