Fierce Girls at War

There were few things Kelly Cassidy enjoyed more than a relaxing day off from work and
spending time with her granddaughter Ciara whose father 'Rick' O'Brien was her eldest child and
only son. "Rick', whose given name was Paul O'Brien, was a lieutenant in the Navy and currently
deployed with his ship the USS Mount St Helens off the coast of West Africa in support of a
battalion of US Marines involved in peacekeeping and counter-insurgency ops in central Nigeria.
Ciara's mom Melanie McCord had never married Rick, nobody called him Paul, but she was like
another daughter to Kelly and an older sister to her three daughters Bridget, Nicole and Chloe.
Melanie worked in a medical nano-botics laboratory just twenty minutes down the highway. The
McCord residence where Ciara had lived with just her mom ever since Melanie's parents had
moved to Oregon when she was three years old was just five minutes and a few blocks away and
the little girl spent much of her time over at her grandma's house...