Chasing the Light — Steven Lyle Jordan

Tom's hope of reuniting with his lost love may be dashed by America's clashes with its energy dictatorship...

Tom Everson, forced to flee his home during the 2019 oil riots, returns eight years later to find the love he had to leave behind, start a business and make a life for them both. But America's corporation-exacerbated energy situation has only gotten worse, and the country may break out in renewed riots at any time! Did Tom arrive at exactly the wrong moment?

Chasing the Light is a timeless romance.

Tom Everson is ready to risk everything to find the woman he was forced to abandon to the first riots. Doña desperately wants to be rescued from her existence... but will Tom find her, and is it already too late for them to escape the escalating stakes of energy domination and revolt?

Chasing the Light sees the dire future of an American energy stranglehold.

As corporations control the still oil- and coal-based power industry, America chokes on their dominance over the markets and the public's wallets, and their grip on politicians to do their bidding. But their efforts have already threatened wars and caused one riot; and a fed-up America has become a powderkeg, ready to blow again.

Another biting look at our near-future by Steven Lyle Jordan.

Jordan's eye for the future is prescient and compelling; grounded in real science and informed by current events, it's hard to imagine this future not happening.