What happens when becoming a parent is no longer a choice? 2028. Sam Maxwell is looking forward his junior year at college. But after breaking up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend for good, his life is completely derailed by a summons to family court about a surprise pregnancy. To his dismay, Wisconsin's pro-birth laws declare him as the biological father of the embryo which has been declared a ward of the state. Struggling with the sudden loss of his scholarship, friends, and curtailed rights while placed on house arrest, Sam fights to keep his sense of self as his stubborn partner tries to force her own plans. But when he steps too far outside the harsh lines of involuntary parenthood, this angry young man faces devastating criminal charges for a child that might not even be his. Will he find a path through this autocratic nightmare before his life is derailed forever? M.E. Wright delivers a captivating and dark dystopian story in this coming of age novel. The Fatherhood Mandate's paradigm-flipping plot is sure to grip fans with thought-provoking and unsettling predictions of the near future, with a mind-bending question of what bodily autonomy means to our society

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