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In the days and weeks that followed, Kyle MacKerron, Cade Williams, and Jana Baker returned home. To everyone’s surprise, Jana seemed to handle the catastrophic failure better than anyone. Perhaps it was the assistance she received from Coconut as he jammed his muzzle against her side whenever he detected excess stress. Perhaps it was her utter resolve to never give up the fight against Waseem Jarrah. Or perhaps it was the knowledge that she had given everything she had to the pursuit of saving lives. But in any case, somewhere amid the chaos, Jana had made a conscious decision that she would not live a defeated life.
Jana and Cade’s romantic involvement with one other escalated. In the face of so much death around them, it seemed pointless to allow shyness to imp
