The U.S. Marine Corps has served in every armed conflict in which the United States has been involved. Marines engage in military operations, peacekeeping missions, and provide humanitarian aid.
Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
After their mother's death, Katie and her old sister, Diane, struggle to understand their distant, violent father while coping with the loss that has changed their lives.
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
In 1977, twelve-year-old Lane, living with her family on an army base in the politically tense Panama Canal Zone, tries to cope with the aftermath of a fatal car crash.