The iCandidate (Michael Bennit, #1)

* Winner - National Indie Excellence Award for Political Fiction
* Finalist - 2014 Readers' Choice Awards for Young Adult - Coming of Age
* Finalist - 2014 Readers' Choice Awards for Fiction - Drama
* Global eBook Award Nominee


All Michael Bennit wants to do is use his love and passion for educating his students to become the best high school teacher he can. However, when he loses a bet to his over-achieving class of American history students, he finds himself in unfamiliar territory: a candidate running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.


With no money to run a campaign, Michael sets an audacious plan in motion to become the country’s first virtual candidate. With the help of his teenaged students who serve as his campaign staff, he leverages every form of electronic and social media to reach the voters in his district. With the help of a beautiful, but jaded journalist bent on getting revenge against his opponent, the Bennit campaign rises from obscurity to become the epicenter of national attention. As the infatuation with his fledgling campaign captivates the country, he becomes a target for the desperate incumbent fanatical about hanging onto his power at any cost.


The iCandidate follows the plight of four people caught in the firestorm of mainstream media, social media, and dirty politics. In the end, the lives of everybody involved will be changed and the political landscape of the country forever altered. For Michael Bennit, his real concern heading into Election Day is whether the lesson he is trying to teach is getting lost in all the drama.