"When you're up in the mountains there's always a chance that you'll run into a pack of demon wolves with their armored hides and 8-inch long claws and teeth. The difference between that kind of wolf and my company commander is that I'm allowed to shoot the demon wolf." -Lieutenant Daria Patel, platoon leader, 6th Indian detachment, Bravo Company, Colonial Rangers, New Hope Colony, Tau Ceti 4 "After four years at the colony I didn't think anything would really surprise me. There's a mystery here and the signs are saying not natural and not of human origin. Where does that leave us? Good thing Rick Cassidy has a secret stash of weapons and ammo or we'd really be screwed." -Major Claudia Stairs, XO, 2nd Battalion, Colonial Rangers, New Hope Colony, Tau Ceti 4 Book 2 of Fierce Girls at War takes place in 2126. In 2118 a Rift starship had discovered that humans have invaded a planet they consider theirs. They captured 2 humans who broke free and killed 2 Rift officers before they were killed.
The humans are judged extremely dangerous and must be eliminated. Eight years later they have returned to take back the planet. Three Rift transports with 30,000 Andoval mercenaries arrive at the colony. The Rift intend to use the humans as food for the Andoval. They land on some islands and set up a force field hiding them from satellite detection. By 2126 LCDR Rick Cassidy and GSGT Molly Pickford have become especially important to the New Hope Colony. Rick has a hot tub installed in his residence, a gift from the people he saved three years before. Molly has married LT Jason Ramsey.
The family business Stellar Enterprises provides support for the ventures Rick and Molly start at the colony. Gen. Robert Black has returned from the colony and married Rick's mom Kelly Cassidy and is now the senior officer at Ranger Command. Rick's sisters Bridget and Nicole O'Brien are now both lieutenants in the Colonial Rangers and getting ready to go to the colony. Terrorists threaten colony-related facilities on Earth. Kelly has trained Rick's daughter Ciara and by age 12 she was an expert shot, and at 14 she is on her way to the colony on the starship Asia to join her dad. Ciara makes friends among the crew and the Rangers, competing against them in the ship's VR trainer. She will be attending the New Hope Academy.
Students at the Academy learn who's to go on the spring internship tour. The Amundsen arrives in the system with 6000 passengers and crew including 500 Rangers under Col Colin Fox. Among them is Maj Naomi MacCaffrey who has left Earth to join the logistics team at the colony.