Enter the By Her Hand Series
Freedom rarely disappears all at once
It happens slowly. One law. One court decision. One more exception to a right people thought they had.
By Her Hand carries the Unborn Child Protection Act universe forward to 2031, into an America that kept changing while people went to work, raised their families and paid their bills. Reproductive freedom is only the beginning. Privacy. Freedom of movement. Representation. The right to make decisions about your own life without asking the government for permission.
The series begins with Mackenzie Williams, one sister who decides she’s had enough and takes on the foundations of her family’s political power. What will it take to make “of the people, by the people, and for the people” mean something again?
New to M.E. Wright? Exit Strategy is a great place to start. Want the full backstory? The Unborn Child Protection Act series comes first in the timeline.
Exit Strategy
In 2031, a woman can’t cross a state line for reproductive care. Mackenzie Williams built a way out for the women who need one.
She never expected to need it herself.
When your body becomes evidence, escape becomes strategy.
In 2031, crossing a state line for reproductive care is no longer an option for most American women. Leaving the country without attracting government attention is getting harder every month.
Mackenzie Williams has been building a way around it. After her sister Rylee was detained over an unplanned pregnancy, Mackenzie started Threshold Foundation. Not a nonprofit with a letterhead and a gala, but a door: unmarked, reliable, there for women with no money, no passports and no options.
She never expected to need it herself.
Mackenzie has money, three passports, a private jet, and a legitimate business trip to Lisbon as cover. But when she discovers she’s pregnant, none of it changes one fact: the care she needs is illegal in the United States.
And the restrictions aren’t happening in isolation. Money, religion and political influence are converging behind an agenda that reaches far beyond reproductive freedom. Mackenzie found a way around the system. The question is how long that way out will remain open.
Exit Strategy is Book 1 of By Her Hand, a near-future political thriller set in the world of the Unborn Child Protection Act series. Perfect for readers of Julia and Counting Backwards.
Content note: abortion and reproductive coercion.
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Join The Exit Strategy Readalong
October 19 to November 15 on The StoryGraph
For four weeks, we’re reading Mackenzie Williams’s story together, and I’ll be in the discussions with you. Bring your questions, your theories, and the moments that made you stop and stare at the page.
Tell me who you trust. Tell me who you don’t. I’ll share some behind-the-book research along the way, plus the occasional thing I only know because I wrote it.
There’s no required pace. Discussion forums unlock as you update your reading progress, so you’ll never run into spoilers before you get there.
New to M.E. Wright? You don’t need to have read the Unborn Child Protection Act series first. New series, same universe.
Already finished? Come back in. You’ll notice a few things the second time around.