Katie spends the lazy days of summer waiting for life to begin; waiting to fall in love; and waiting for the beatings to stop. Since the death of her mother, she and her sister have struggled to understand their father's violent behavior.
Jay Gridley and Alex Michaels of Net Force, with help from the National Guard and Army intelligence, try to find a mastermind, with the knowledge of an insider, who penetrated the advanced security of Fort Stephens and other bases.
Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her students use her techniques to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
The commander of forty British commandos, who are being hunted by an American battalion in the desert near a military base in the Nevada, recruits ten CHERUB agents--children between age ten and seventeen who work for a branch of British intelligence--to act as spies.
Fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, sent to live with his uncle in Camp Hale, Colorado, following the death of his parents in 1944, finds himself struggling between his upbringing as a pacifist, and life on a military base in the middle of World War II.
Seventeen-year-old Englishman Carl Hobbes meant no harm when he hacked into Fort Knox's security system, but at Camp Twilight in the Arctic Circle, known as the Guantanamo Bay of the north, he is tortured to reveal information about a conspiracy of which he was never a part.