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Alpha Team
Paperback
Series: Project Field Study
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five lifelong friends. One permanent team. A system that still sees them as an experiment.
Project Field Study is over.
Ethan Corbett, Caleb Hollis, Noah Alden, Kieran Dorsey, and Tyler Baird refused every future that required them to separate. Now the government has agreed to preserve them as Alpha Team-but only if they can survive a unified military-intelligence pipeline built for a unit no institution fully understands or trusts.
The instincts that saved lives at Hawthorne are no longer enough.
Ethan acts before authority can catch up. Caleb must learn to command the brother who has always led. Tyler hides the damage he fears will make him expendable. Kieran and Noah must turn years of silent understanding into professional communication that outsiders can follow. Together, the five must accept formal hierarchy, individual accountability, and the possibility that protecting the team may sometimes mean surrendering control.
Then training gives way to sanctioned operations.
Across borders, compromised networks, and classified records, Alpha uncovers a pattern buried beneath emergency codes, transportation routes, government contracts, and decisions no one was supposed to question. Someone inside the machinery of national security has learned how to turn urgency into unaccountable power-and the system Alpha is being trained to serve may be connected to the one that created them.
Emma Bellini sees the danger before most people know where to look. A brilliant military-intelligence specialist who understands systems through the people trapped inside them, she challenges Alpha's assumptions-and Ethan's conviction that loving someone gives him the right to protect them from every risk.
To earn a permanent future, Alpha must prove more than five friends can fight as one.
They must learn when to lead.
When to follow.
When to speak.
And when the most disciplined decision is not to move.
Because their final test will not remain an exercise-and the greatest threat may be an institution convinced that usefulness is the same thing as consent.
Alpha Team is Book Two of the Field Study Alpha saga, an adult military and espionage thriller combining high-stakes operations, institutional conspiracy, brotherhood, found family, and romance. The series is intended to be read in order, beginning with Project Field Study.
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