This installment in the series didn't grab me quite as much as the others. In some ways, the title was misleading. The 14th Colony is Canada, and, according to the story, at a few times in US history, there was a plan to annex Canada. OK, but that's not what the story was about. The story were these Russian suitcase nukes that were hidden in the US during the Cold War--then more or less forgotten about, but now some rogue Russians want to detonate them at the presidential inauguration and throw everything into chaos. That's kind of cool too, but there was never any connection between the two--other than one of the Russian agents had been living in Canada.

A lot of the book was also not focused on Cotton--Stephanie and Luke were the primary players, and that also took away a bit. Cassiopeia was back, and she and Cotton resolved their differences, so that is good. Danny Daniels' term as president is over, so there is hope for him and Stephanie. It seemed kind of like the last book of the series--let's tie up all the lose ends and all that.