Newly promoted, Captain Ashlyn Shaw has been ordered to take Delta Company to the Bennington System. Their mission is simple: secure the groundside defenses and seek out the Callusian invaders. It should be an easy assignment. The Fuerconese Navy has proven time and again it is more than a match for the enemy. Once Taskforce Liberator arrives in-system, Ash and her Devil Dogs get to work. Except no battle plan ever survives the first encounter with the enemy. This time the Callusians are b...

Captain Ashlyn Shaw knows the grim realities of war. Death is her constant companion, an unwelcome one. After losing four of her company in an ambush that never should have happened, she is asked to accept a special mission. Command suspects a traitor has infiltrated their ranks and they want Ash and others to act as bait in an attempt to draw them out. Worse, at least as far as Ash is concerned, FleetCom is focusing on only one possible explanation for the ambush. That narrow view could l...

Duty, honor, sacrifice. That motto means everything to newly commissioned Second Lieutenant Ashlyn Shaw. She thinks she understands the meaning of those simple words. Little does she know. Challenged by those who believe she made it through the Academy on her family's coattails, a roommate who just wants to see "some action" and a gunnery sergeant determined to make a real Marine out of her, Ash soon realizes what it really means to be a Marine. As the signs point to war on the horizon, sh...