{"product_id":"the-republic-of-cedar-key","title":"The Republic of Cedar Key","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCedar Key Trilogy Book 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirkus - Literary Titan - Florida Writers Association Award-Winning Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty-five years after the world ended, an army claiming to be from the American government just showed up at the bridge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The epic last chapter in a trilogy full of excitement, adventure, and heartbreak.\" - Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Bobbitt writes Cedar Key like someone who knows the smell of salt air, old docks, porch talk, and stubborn people who would rather fix a thing badly than let an outsider tell them how to live.\" - Literary Titan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In Michael Presley Bobbitt's third and final installment of the Cedar Key trilogy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Republic of Cedar Key\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he does exactly what he sets out to do-go out with a bang.\" - Independent Book Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE STORY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCedar Key has survived twenty-five years without the outside world. Now the outside world wants back in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe heroes of the early years - Hayes, Thomas, Rolf - are old men now. The island has rebuilt itself from memory and stubbornness. Then a Blackhawk helicopter drops out of the sky carrying soldiers who claim to represent what remains of the United States government. Mayor Luke Buck faces the defining question of his life: submit to a nation that abandoned them, or lead Cedar Key's resistance and stand alone. Part civic reckoning, part survival thriller, part elegy - the finale delivers the payoff readers of Books 1 and 2 have been building toward, while standing on its own as a complete story about identity, independence, and what a community owes itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Full of battles, old grudges, civic rituals, and hard jokes - but underneath is a serious question: what happens when the symbols of a nation outlive the nation's moral authority?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterary Titan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Five-Star Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWHY THIS IS THE TRILOGY CLOSER READERS DESERVE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe stakes have never been higher - not a raid or a flood, but a full political reckoning. Twenty-five years of hard-won independence on the line.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharacters you've watched grow old - heroes from Book 1 are now elders whose weight and wisdom make every decision resonate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorks as a standalone - new to Cedar Key? The backstory is woven in. Series readers get the full payoff they've earned.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSouthern literary fiction with real stakes - funny, sharp, elegiac. A book that earns its ending.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePERFECT FOR FANS OF\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlas, Babylon - Station Eleven - Lonesome Dove - A Land Remembered - The Road\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFROM READERS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The voice has a storyteller's looseness - sometimes funny, sometimes sharp, sometimes almost elegiac. I felt the book at its best when it slowed down and let people talk, remember, and reveal what survival has cost them.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterary Titan - 5\/5 Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In a world that keeps trying to fall apart, Cedar Key keeps choosing to hold on. Bobbitt just delivered the final word on it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSurreal Florida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichael Presley Bobbitt is an off-Broadway playwright, novelist, clam farmer, and Cedar Key's official Clambassador. He rode out Hurricanes Idalia and Helene on the island helping neighbors, gave a TEDTalk on the power of live theatre, and swam with sharks to raise money for Cedar Key School. He doesn't write about this place from a distance. 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