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My platoon's going to be getting orders to form a firing squad soon... Mine. Corporal Janice Skelling's mission definitely isn't the walk in the park they briefed her on. Her platoon's assault shuttle is blown out of the sky by an enemy base equipped with a downright suspicious amount of firepower, leaving her team stranded on a challenging alien world that wants to kill them. Just another day in the 1st Frontier Assault Brigade for Jan, but she has a bigger problem, a lethal problem: her lieutenant. They're not getting off this planet unless they can take the base, but the line between valor and recklessness is lost amidst the chaos of a military operation gone badly wrong. The lieutenant wants them to charge straight in for death or glory. The way this base is armed, Jan knows that means they'll all die. Military orders have to be obeyed. Plain common sense demands a refusal. Time's run out. Something's got to give. What's it going to be?
Author
I was born in Africa and left out in the sun too often. After being persuaded that I wasn't going to be able to be a cowboy if I grew up, I got interested in philosophy and psychology. Tending bars proved to me they weren't as much fun as they sounded. While trying to enroll in a class to read Science Fiction full time, I ended up taking an electronic engineering degree which splendidly qualified me to move into marketing. That in turn spawned a late onset career in creative writing. When not writing, I fly a microlight aircraft, or get muddy on a mountain bike. I love reading obviously. Urban Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thrillers, History, Crime, Art, oh nearly everything.
