History belongs to those who control the narrative.

Long after the United States has fallen to a dictatorship that governs stories as rigidly as it governs its people, hobbyist hacker Rhys Katz uncovers a cache of forgotten journals hidden by his great-aunt Nan and the rebels who disappeared with her.

Their pages preserve a history the Ministry tried to erase.

Through the voices of Bellamy Cole and a disparate community of outsiders, dreamers, and survivors, a forgotten resistance comes to life. Fleeing a society built on surveillance and manufactured truth, they create Bellamy Grove—an off-grid refuge where identity is self-defined, loyalty is chosen, and every voice carries equal weight. But the Ministry knows that power lies not only in force, but in narrative. By reshaping memory, sowing doubt, and turning people against one another, it wages war on the fragile story the rebels are trying to keep alive.

Told through the journals of the people who lived it, this sweeping dystopian novel asks who gets to decide what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what becomes history.

When Rhys reaches the end of the archive, he uncovers an unsettling truth: Bellamy Grove endured, but not in the way the rebels imagined. What remains of their dream, and who controls its story now?

Bellamy Grove is Susan Adair’s debut novel. Adair is an adjunct English professor, currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona with her partner and four cats.
Original cover design by Jennifer Legge, whose creative vision vibrantly brings the essence of Bellamy Grove to life.