"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 Opening Shots Book 3 of Fierce Girls at War 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. They have been covertly landing their mercenary troops on some islands 300 miles south of the southeastern coast. Reluctant to endanger their handful of orbit to ground airships they plan to attack the eastern settlements by sea using The colony ship Amundsen had brought thousands of new colonists plus 500 Rangers under Colonel Colin Fox. Among them is Major Naomi MacCaffrey who is unaware of who she would be really be working for. 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. Some of the girls chosen for the internship tour are members of a female protection group that deals with male students who create sexually harass the girls.

First stop is New St Louis where they will put on concerts for the residents. Some of the girls visit with their parents who live in the various settlements. When Colonel Fox returns to New Hope Town with his Rangers he wants to take them to New Cancun early. CDR Rick Cassidy is asked to arrange that for their earlier departure. Their cargo containers can't go with them. Cassidy and GSGT Molly Pickford will have to travel 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.