Red Rain: A Novella of War, Friendship and Loss: A Prequel Novella to the Liz Danger Series

Before Vince Cooper ended up in Burney, Ohio and Liz Danger drove into his life, he was an Army Ranger. Which is where he met Rain Still, who helps Liz and him when trouble comes to Burney. This is the story of how they met.
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A Ranger squad leader and the medic attached to his squad become, over the course of six months, the thing two people become when they have seen each other be good at the worst work human beings do — and neither of them comes home the way they went in.

Raina Still arrived on a Tuesday, on the same Chinook as the supply pallets to the FOB in Afghanistan. Six feet tall, head shaved close, a full med kit over one shoulder and the walk of someone who intended to understand a place fast. Sergeant Vince Cooper watched her cross the FOB, just another Fobbit, and filed her under things that were not his concern. Forty-eight hours later she was attached to his Ranger squad as their medic, and the deployment became a thing neither of them had planned for.

Red Rain is a novella in two voices — a squad leader who plans obsessively because planning is what keeps his men alive, and a medic with time to serve before medical school. It is a book about the particular intimacy of shared competence, about the things two people come to know about each other without saying, and about what a deployment asks a person to carry home. Six months of ops, one friendship built on mutual respect, and an afternoon on a landing zone that neither of them will finish being inside of.

Vince Cooper and Raina Still are a small city cop and forensic scientist in the bestselling Liz Danger series of books. This is the story of how they first met years before.