"I love being a Marine but there are days...We may have a lot of the same problems in 2122 we did a hundred years ago but back then the Gul brothers weren't paying lots to see my head on a spike Not that I was born yet but that's not the point So I'm a pretty good shot and Rick is even better. Did I ask daddy Gul and his boys to go on a rampage? No, I didn't But now we have to leave the planet and go to the New Hope colony where the locals like to eat people " -Staff Sergeant Susan 'Molly' Bennett, USMC In early 2122 Marine recon squad leader Staff Sergeant Susan 'Molly' Bennett had her first encounter with members of Hassan Gul's family. The fight makes her a hero to a nation and to nine-year-old Ciara McCord O'Brien in particular. The Guls have been committing murder and mayhem on three continents for years. High on their list of targets is anyone or any nation involved with the starship and colony program to develop Earth's first extra-solar colony on Tau Ceti 4. Now Gul's primary target is Molly and the Marines who killed his sons. Hassan Gul's thirst for revenge brings her together with Ciara's dad LT Paul 'Rick' O'Brien. The result of that incident results in attracting a whole new level of attention from the surviving members of the Gul family of killers. Their only safe haven may be the New Hope colony on Tau Ceti 4. . The Fierce Girls At War series beginning with 'Fierce Girls' is not simply about the bonds between the characters. It is about women who are smart, brave, quick thinking, resilient and who are good leaders. They are steady under fire, they are problem solvers and they are resourceful and creative thinkers. They feel fear when circumstances are frightening but they don't panic. They are not dependent on their male counterparts and more often than not they outshine them. They feel lust and love but are not driven by either (most of the time). Many of them are experienced, competent soldiers while others are young students dropped into a perilous situation from which no one is coming to rescue them. Some of them are bound by bonds of family but by no means are they all. Book One 'Fierce Girls' introduces the main characters -Gunnery Sergeant 'Molly' Pickford, Lieutenant Commander 'Rick' Cassidy, his daughter Ciara and other members of his family, and Captain Naomi MacCaffrey, a Canadian officer captured by extremists and rescued by Molly in the African jungles. They must find it in themselves to fight battles against other humans before the coming desperate struggle against an alien invasion of Earth's first colony in space that will arise in the following books of the series. Those books will show these women and others take the lead in fighting for the life of the colony. The main male character Rick Cassidy serves as a catalyst who sets family members and friends in motion but he does not fight their battles for them although sometimes he fights with them. For one he is a son, for another a father, for others he is a brother, for another a partner and best friend while for still others he is a colleague, a friend, a lover, and a leader who respects the women in his life as competent, intelligent, capable people he inspires to push forward in the face of danger, politics, sexism and inertia.