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 Virginia Beach 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 — the same man she met three days earlier at a car show, before she knew his rank, before either of them knew what they were walking into.
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 Foster falls asleep in his lap during a late-night checklist, and for the first time since he was eighteen, he wants something that isn't about being useful to somebody else.
Nine months at sea. One impossible rule standing between them. And two people who are very, very good at doing the right thing — right up until the cost of it stops being worth it.