When the federal government abruptly defunds the Lipiec Employment Inclusion Network, Stanly Lipiec's work, staff, and clients are thrown into immediate peril. A blind disability-employment leader who has spent years building opportunity for others, Stanly suddenly finds himself fighting to protect not only his organization, but the people whose lives depend on it. As political hostility sharpens and the systems around him begin to close, he retreats to the rural Eastern Washington estate of Ellen Zawadzka, the fierce dressage trainer who has loved him for years, while attorney Lorine moves quickly to defend them both.
What begins as a professional and political crisis does not stay contained for long. A mystery delivery, covert surveillance, federal pressure, and sudden violence make it clear that the collapse of funding is only the beginning. Hidden forces are moving behind policy decisions, and the people targeted first are the same people long pushed to the margins. As Stanly, Ellen, and Lorine work to protect the remains of the Lipiec Employment Inclusion Network, they are drawn into a widening conspiracy shaped by power, ideology, secrecy, and fear.
Set in Eastern Washington and grounded in legal, political, and disability realism, The Foundation of Living Hope blends political thriller, adult romance, suspense, and social conflict into a story about resistance under pressure. The novel explores disability rights, employment justice, institutional discrimination, loyalty, intimacy, and the cost of remaining visible in a culture that increasingly rewards silence and exclusion. It also follows the emotional lives of people who refuse to separate love from survival, or care from strategy, even when the world around them grows more dangerous.
At its center, this is a novel about what happens when private devotion collides with public threat. Horses, law, rural land, music, work, and political struggle all become part of the same battle. The Foundation of Living Hope is the first installment of The Lipiec Standard, introducing a world of dangerous secrets, fierce relationships, moral pressure, and hard-won endurance, where the people most threatened are also the ones most determined to fight back.
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