Two nights ago, the militia had raided Winter Haven. Twenty-seven families were rousted from their beds and driven from their homes. Only the militia and those few citizens who’d proven their loyalty to Rosamond Sinclair had been allowed to stay. People like Darryl Wiggins and Noah Sheridan. The community food bank remained open—and well-guarded—at the middle school, but the militia maintained an updated list of who was approved to get supplies, and who was turned away. At least a quarter of the town had made it on the blacklist for one reason or another. With the Crossway church supplies
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