Red Tape Empire: You can't beat city hall until you have nothing left to lose

Red Tape Empire: You can't beat city hall until you have nothing left to lose

You can’t fight City Hall—until you have nothing left to lose. Ellerton was built on ambition. But somewhere along the way, power stopped belonging to the people who took risks and started belonging to the ones who controlled the system. Clara Reed didn’t come back to start a war. She just wanted to open a business—to build something real in the city her family helped shape. But the deeper she gets, the more she realizes Ellerton isn’t broken. It’s rigged. A.J. is the kind of man who doesn’t make waves. A former Army intelligence officer turned entrepreneur, he built his career by staying out of politics. But when the system turns against the wrong person, he starts digging. And what he finds is worse than corruption—it’s a machine designed to keep people like him and Clara from ever winning. Behind it all is Victor Hale, the untouchable power broker who decides which businesses succeed and which ones never open their doors. He doesn’t just play the game—he wrote the rulebook. But then, just as the battle lines are drawn, an unexpected name appears on the financial records. A name that changes everything. As the city teeters on the edge of collapse, the battle lines are redrawn: 🔹 Entrepreneurs vs. Bureaucrats 🔹 Builders vs. Gatekeepers 🔹 The Future vs. The Old Guard And at the center of it all, Clara faces the ultimate question: Does she dismantle the system? Or become the one who controls it? For fans of Atlas Shrugged, House of Cards, and The Wealth of Nations, Red Tape Empire is an explosive political and economic thriller about power, corruption, and the unstoppable force of those who refuse to be controlled. It is a warning to cities and towns everywhere.