Opening Shots

Book 3 of Fierce Girls at War
“OH, MY GOD! Do you have any idea what it’s like to be trapped in a restroom doorway on a 850-ft long cargo transport flying sideways through the mountains after being hit by plasma bolts from alien ships way down on the ocean and think you’re gonna die, and it’s a good thing I finished or I would have had my pants down around my ankles, and ha ha very funny, and then and then to be picked up and carried like a rag doll with a broken wrist and then thrown into a crash couch and then have a really handsome naval officer that you know your mom would like jump on top of you just before you crash into a mountain with your nose and mouth full of crash gel foam? OH, MY GOD!”

-Ruby McCarthy, age 14, 2nd year student from Canada, New Hope Academy, New Hope Colony, Tau Ceti 4

“Take a breath, blondie! You know you hammered my eyeball with your elbow, right? You’re welcome anyway.”

-Commander Rick Cassidy, Director of Logistics, Colonial Ranger Regiment, New Hope Colony

The Rift are ready to strike. They’ve had to wait until after winter and for Amundsen to depart before their waterborne invasion can begin.

The colony ship Amundsen had brought thousands of new colonists plus 500 Rangers under Colonel Colin Fox. Among them is Major Naomi MacCaffrey.
A group of fifty female students and interns from the New Hope Academy prepare to leave on their internship tour of the colony’s eastern settlements with Veronika Tchachenko in charge of getting them where they need to go. First stop is New St Louis where they will put on concerts for the residents.

Colonel Fox wants to take his Rangers to New Cancun early and CDR Rick Cassidy is asked to arrange that for their earlier departure on the transport Barcelona. Cassidy and GSGT Molly Pickford will have to travel separately with the Rangers’ equipment including their weapons and ammo on the transport Cairo.

The Regimental Commander General Jamison receives a report from the starship Asia message to informing him about the incident on Asia and learns that Rick Cassidy’s daughter was involved.