No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Between five U.S. Marines, a former U.S. Navy Corpsman turned student doctor, and a NSA engineer, they should have known better.

A group vacation to St. Thomas — sun, Caribbean barbecue, and a hotel rate that existed solely because one of them was an airline pilot in civilian life. For one week, real life and adult responsibilities were supposed to be on hold as they enjoyed warm weather and water so beautiful that it should have earned the U.S. Virgin Islands full statehood on its own.

Then a teenage girl grabs Eliza Rogers by the arm and even the group's desk jockey could figure out that something was most definitely not okay. Especially when you factored in the ratio of teenage girls to old guys in the group.

There was a major problem though: The Posse Comitatus Act, a whole bunch of [Number] U.S.C. [Some Other Number] that none of them could identify as non-lawyers, and decades of DoD Instructions and Marine Administrative Messages (MARADMINs) said that they should stay out. Legally speaking, that members of the U.S. Armed Forces had no business interfering in civilian matters without a presidentially declared state of emergency.

But in the absence of justice, in the absence of law enforcement protecting people instead of protecting the status quo, what's left if not for people whose core values are Honor, Courage, Commitment.

Honor, Courage, Commitment is a military thriller about what happens when the people trained to defend the republic and the people for whom it is supposed to stand decide that waiting for the system to work is not an option — and what it costs them when they're right. Because when one is not a member of the Epstein class, consequences are in fact real.

A prequel short / novella from The fall of the CRINK Alliance series.

Honor Courage Commitment

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