Night Witches in the west
by
cassandra mae
“It’s easy to run an insurgency against men. They spend their lives overlooking and underestimating women.”—Dorothy, leader of the Night Witches
When they came for our rights, we became the resistance.
America didn’t fall in a day. It was gutted by oligarchs, stripped by corporate interests, and sold for parts. Now, what’s left is up for grabs: nuclear bases, national parks, natural resources, women’s bodies, prison labor—anything that can be bought, controlled, or exploited. It is coming for you and everything you care about.
The Night Witches are done watching it happen.
Led by Dorothy from an undisclosed location, this all-woman insurgency network fights back on multiple fronts. In the southeast, Leilani runs honeypot operations, bleeding corrupt officials dry and taking back what they stole. In Colorado, Blanche plans a prison break with military precision. In Yellowstone, Dorothy infiltrates a gathering of billionaires plotting to privatize the park. And across the Canadian border, Marie coordinates an underground railroad for women fleeing surveillance states.
Like their WWII namesakes—Soviet women pilots who dropped death and destruction on the Nazis in the middle of the night—the Night Witches use silence, surprise, and the enemy’s fatal flaw: men who spend their lives overlooking and underestimating women.
Multi-front warfare. Tactical operations. No mercy.
For readers who wanted to see a women fight back in The Handmaid’s Tale and Parable of the Sower. For anyone who’s been told we’re overreacting about where things are headed. For those who want resistance fiction grounded in operational reality, not wishful thinking. For women who want to be their own heroes. For women who want to make a difference. For women who aren’t going to rely on men to get them out of the mess men created in the first place.
Night Witches in the West: The revolution will be led by women.
Night Witches in the West: An All-woman Insurgency
About Cassandra Mae
No one uses their real name while running an insurgency; that’s tradecraft 101. —Cassandra Mae will do.
I’ve worked in places where you watch power , how surveillance systems function, and what active resistance looks like. War zones. Contested borders. Crisis response operations where the crisis strips away the thin layer of civilization, the rules everyone agrees to follow and leaves things as they really are. You live, you learn, you decide for yourself what you want to change. I want to be remembered as one who tried.
Night Witches in the West is made up, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I’ve done counterinsurgency, which means I’m now a better insurgent. The prison breaks, the intelligence networks, the escape routes, the honeypot operations—I’m not making this up. You use every weapon of opportunity you have in a fight..
I dedicated this book to every woman I’ve ever served with because we all deserve better and it feels good to fight back. I wrote it for readers who are done with fairy tales. And every little girl who read books and watched movies and wondered why only the men were doing brave things. Where are they women? They’re here.
Still doing the crisis response work. Still writing. This is the first book; there will be more.