An Unconquerable Spirit

Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Kristian Cole is on the fast track to a brilliant career in Special Operations Command. A difficult childhood and a dangerous personal secret taught Kris how to survive just about anything. Kris was born with an uncommon gender disorder and raised to identify as male. After being wounded during an op, doctors discover Kris is biologically female. This knowledge makes a future in Special Operations Command and the Marine Corps an uncertainty. Complicating things are a new relationship that could end both her and her new romantic interest’s careers in the Marine Corps. A closely guarded secret from Kris’s past threatens the life Kris and those close to Kris have built. Kris has to use all the coping mechanisms from a lifetime of survival along with the training and skills learned in Special Operations Command in order to keep ahead of the enemy both on and off the battlefield. More secrets emerge forcing Kris to make some hard choices. The only way to have a future is to deal with the secrets of the past. If Kris can face down those demons and fight trough ignorance, prejudice, and hatred; the future this Marine has always dreamt of may be in reach.