They tried to intimidate the new Black girl on base, believing she was just another recruit they could push around. What they didn’t realize was that she was actually the admiral in command, and everything soon changed.

When she asked about a secure terminal, Major Colin Reeves from logistics gave her a tight smile and said, “You won’t need that level of visibility.”

Imani didn’t argue.

She had not come to Fort Calder Ridge to be visible.

She had come because something buried inside that base was moving quietly, and too precisely, to be accidental.

It started with numbers that didn’t quite line up.