His wife wants to be Queen of Mackinac Island, Canada is conspiring against him, Russia is invading, and North Korea is looking to buy real estate for all the wrong reasons: where does Pete even begin?
After finding a 200-year old treaty, the residents of Mackinac Island discover that they're going to be ejected from the union unless they reverse the process in two weeks. Except Congress has other priorities-hearings to hold, speeches to spew, Presidents to elect-and the process to repatriate the island will take at least two years.
Enter Pete Bidwell, the reluctant President of Mackinac Island, who only wants to keep everyone happy and return them to America's warm embrace, even if America is treating them like something on the bottom of their shoe. If that wasn't enough of a hot mess, the Russians are colluding against them and Canada is secretly conspiring-and canoodling-with Pete's wife Lucy, who wants the island to remain independent. Not to mention North Korea wants to hide a couple of nuclear weapons on the island.
Two years is going to be an eternity when the whole world wants to screw you over.