
It was a day of firsts for Kat, her first mission, her first command, and the first time someone tried to kill her. It was a test and she passed merely because she survived. There would be more tests, more missions, each one more dangerous than the last, and the stakes couldn't...

The adventure begins as Kat Fernando, an orphaned child, homeless and desperately in needed of a home and a job, approaches the Army for sanctuary. She is only seventeen, so she is too young to join without a guardian's signature which is of course impossible. At first the...