The First Gentleman of the United States

The president's body lay next to her bed. She had been described as the most popular president since Kennedy, and her romance with her Australian boyfriend-and their marriage-had captured the imagination of an America tired of partisan politics and scared by Covid. She had proved herself a smart member of the Republican Party: worldly, knowledgeable, young, attractive, and a more than capable candidate. Indeed, she was the darling of the GOP, but only while she was useful to them.

And even t...