Runs in the Family — Kevin Ikenberry

Mairin Shields is an outcast at the prestigious Eden Academy. Without a civil service assignment and physically unfit for military service, Mairin is going nowhere fast. When a convincing recruiter offers her genetic perfection for participation in a classified experiment, she goes to war, or so she thinks. Without transport to the fight, Mairin meets and falls in love with Tallenaara, a beautiful Styrahi architect whose mission and past will come to haunt both of them. When the enemy mounts a massive attack that threatens Earth's allies, Mairin finds herself leading inexperienced troops under an incompetent commander against a shadowy enemy whose tactics are hauntingly familiar. Winning the war could cost her more than her life. Faced with the most difficult choice of her young life, Mairin Shields can only watch as her world spins out of control.