Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Thing of Happiness [Completed]
11 parts Complete Iliana Fleming, 17, is the daughter of an active-duty soldier and a part-time Marine. At
school, she is a member of her high school's JROTC. But after her father, Charles Fleming, and a platoon of men are injured and held hostage during a rescue mission in the Middle East, Iliana is sent on a special mission - pose as a European royal and get into the estate to rescue her father. Joined by five Marines - Brayden Dockle, Louis Fischer, Patrick Dale, Toby Nolan, Carlisle Allen, and elite sniper, Raymond Tiller - Iliana sets out to rescue her father and his platoon. But in the midst of escaping, Iliana and Dockle are hit by a grenade. To protect Dockle, she tackles him and takes the worst of the explosion. She loses both of her legs after the grenade explodes. Allen, Dockle, Fischer, Dale, Nolan, and Tiller are not injured and save Iliana's dad and his platoon, but Iliana is immediately medevaced out. Iliana now has to deal with going back to school, stuck in a wheelchair and told she can never walk again. But with the help of a reasonably handsome boy her age, she finds that it wasn't just her body that needed healing: her spirit needed it, too.