About Cardinal Virtues
Every nation wants territory. No one wants war.
But once the shooting starts…
Alex Coleman is on the way out.
Nancy Coleman is on the way up.
It’s 2037 and Commander Alex Coleman’s career is on the rocks. He’s been exiled to Armistice Station, an underwater megastation where you can buy everything except success in the U.S. Navy. Here, he waits for retirement, doling out sodas and supplies while keeping an eye on unruly sailors—hardly what the Navy sends you to do when you’re on the fast track.
Commander Nancy Coleman, on the other hand, appears to have it made. She’s in command of a brand-new destroyer, leading a strike group through the Strait of Malacca. China’s getting frisky, and the U.S. Navy has long-standing ties with Taiwan. China might start the war, but Nancy knows her navy will finish it.
But mysterious forces are at work under the surface, and things aren’t quiet in Alex’s underwater amusement park. French marines arrive, allied with the Indian Navy. Both nations want the United States out of the Indian Ocean, and Alex’s eclectic band of castoff sailors are all that’s in their way.
And then the trigger-happy admiral in command of Nancy’s strike group sinks the wrong submarine, trapping Nancy and her ship in the middle of a shootout with the wrong enemy—one that might just herald the start of World War III.
Neither Coleman wants to be a hero. Nancy just wants to keep her ship in one piece and protect her sailors. Alex wants off that damned station before he can end up as a prisoner of war (if this is war). But the shooting has started, and both have a job to do.
Cardinal Virtues is first book in the series War of the Submarine, also published as Season 1 of the War of the Submarine serial on Kindle Vella.
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R.G. Roberts is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, currently living in Connecticut and working as a Manufacturing Manager for a major medical device manufacturer. While an officer in the Navy, R.G. Roberts served on three ships, taught at the Surface Warfare Officer’s School, and graduated from the U.S. Naval War College with a masters degree in Strategic Studies & National Security, with a concentration in leadership.
She is a multi-genre author, and has published in military science fiction, epic fantasy, and alternate history.
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