A young woman, Ia, wakes one morning knowing that for the next 300 years everything depends on her. She has to wait for her destiny, so she trains herself to be the best she can be when the time comes. Years pass and the time she has been waiting for finally arrives and Ia fights to save everything she knows. She has seen the future and there is one narrow chance that she can save everything as long as she does everything in her power. She gives up any chance at a normal life and gives herself over to protecting mankind, even if they will never know it.

Ia is a precog; she can slip into the time streams and see what is coming. She can pick certain paths so that she will be where she is needed at the correct moment. However, there are millions of paths, choices and possibilities. She must choose carefully and not look too long at people she knows. Some she must guide and some she cannot save. Her goal though is to save as many as she can while keeping what she can do secret. There are others like her but none have seen so far into the future. They are controlled and limited by the people who think they know how to use them. Ia must not fall into their hands.

She joins the Space Force Marines and earns the nickname Bloody Mary because she throws herself into her plan whole- heartedly and she must be careful. Everything depends on her even the very fabric of her universe.

This is one of the best in a new series I have read in a long time. We all have series' that we keep up with and this is one you should add to your list. THEIRS NOT A REASON WHY: A SOLDIER'S DUTY by Jean Johnson was a ride worth taking. Every minute and every page keeps you entranced and reading, wanting more and more. Watch for the second coming out in August 2012, Theirs Not to Reason Why: An Officer's Duty.

Book Summary

Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.