The Hard Deck Trilogy
Three women. Three platforms. One unbreakable friendship forged at Annapolis and tested across twenty years of service, sacrifice, and the particular stubbornness it takes to build a career in skies that weren't designed for you. Set across Naval and Army aviation, from the flight decks of North Island to the hills of North Carolina, The Hard Deck Trilogy is a series of standalone military romances about women who were extraordinary at everything except letting someone see them — and the people who changed that without being asked.
Slow burns. Almost moments. Love that lands when you least expect clearance.
Lieutenant Commander Cassandra Foster doesn't do distractions. Not with a department head tour riding on her performance, and definitely not with the enlisted Master Chief who somehow becomes both her right hand and her biggest problem the moment she checks in.
Master Chief Garrett Decker hasn't wanted anything for himself in twenty-five years. He's the guy everyone relies on and no one really knows — steady, by the book, five years past retirement and still hasn't left. Then he meets a woman he has absolutely no chance with, and for the first time since he was eighteen, he wants something that isn't about being useful to somebody else.
Four months at sea.
Five months of careful navigation.
One impossible rule standing between them.
And two people who are very,
very good at doing the right thing.