"Battalion 1: Suicide Surviving After Taps" is a captivating tale of multiple subjects hauntingly intertwined with memoirs of the authors days held up in "Med Hell" for naval boot camp in an undisclosed location in the mid-1990s. With her mysterious injuries and lack of appropriate medical care, as well as stories of assaults and other mistreatments for recruits that are never made known to the general public, she must come to grips with her enlightening but miserable reality, while also being haunted by the spirits of people who were not strong enough to survive such treatment.

According to some of the recruits who are tucked away and hidden in shame from the rest of the world, boot camp teaches one how to be strong, fight for what is right, and for some, how to endure being tortured. The storyline and memoirs are appropriately woven to be a small-scale psychological thriller. The author's audience has found this book to be a captivating story of mental survival, keeping them to the edge of their seats, angering them with events allowed to happen, and crying for the spirits who try to reach out to the troubled recruits who are fighting to survive.