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08/30/2026

🗡️ The Lioness Hunts in 7 Days! 🦁

From the dojos of Okinawa to the battlefields of Afghanistan, Kara Quiverly was forged to survive. But nothing—nothing—prepared her for Cologne on New Year's Eve.

🔥 A Marine FET leader. A Purple Heart recipient's vision. A story born from truth, forged in trauma, driven by justice.

🇺🇸 From Dr. Kevin P. Wallace — retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant, Purple Heart recipient, Bronze Star with Valor veteran who served in Bala Murghab. The same warrior who drove 27,106 miles across America in the Van of Valor to preserve the stories of 317 Purple Heart recipients and Gold Star families.

💪 This is military fiction that hits different. Because it's real.

📖 Pre-order now! 👇
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08/30/2026

Seven days until the story I spent years writing finally reaches the world.

The Lioness of Cologne

A novel about the women who served beside me in Afghanistan.
The Female Engagement Teams. The Cultural Support Teams.
Women who walked into villages where no American man could go.

Women who spoke Pashto and Dari.

Women who built trust one conversation at a time.

This book is for them.

This book is from them.

Seven days. The hunt begins.

Pre-order on sale today: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Lioness-Cologne/Kevin-P-Wallace/9798950350184


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08/30/2026

🎵 Easter in Chattanooga

Easter in Chattanooga From the Gulf of Mexico, where the sugar sands lie white To the Alabama pines beneath the April light We carried names of heroes on our weathered steel side In a van of storie…

08/30/2026

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08/30/2026

Unbroken Patriot

Discover the courageous legacy of Colonel Vicente León León, a true patriot who fought for freedom against tyranny at the Bay of Pigs.

08/30/2026

7 DAYS UNTIL THE LIONESS HUNTS.

She was forged in the dojos of Okinawa. Shaped in the firefights of Afghanistan. Broken on the cobblestones of Cologne.
And then she became something the world never expected.
The Lioness of Cologne — coming in 7 days.

A novel about Female Engagement Teams, cultural support teams, and the women who walked into villages where no American man could go. A story born from truth, shaped by trauma, and driven by a single question:
What happens when the women trained to protect others become the ones who need protecting?

Pre-order today. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lioness-of-cologne-dr-kevin-p-wallace/1150354611?ean=9798950350160

From a Purple Heart recipient and Bronze Star with Valor veteran who served in Bala Murghab.

08/30/2026

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08/30/2026

🎵 Get Up, Soldier

Rising from the Ashes An Introduction to Our Next Van of Valor Track Baghdad. 2004. The heat wave was relentless. A Nissan crept toward the Green Zone, and something felt off. Platoon Sergeant Ocie…

08/30/2026

EOD Tech’s Harrowing Journey of Service and Sacrifice

Distinguished Service Cross recipient recounts deadly 2013 ambush Van of Valor NORTH PORT, Fla. – In a gripping interview with Dr. Kevin P. Wallace of Van of Valor, decorated U.S. Army Explosive Or…

08/30/2026

The Names Behind the Valor: Stories from the Roll of Honor

Dr. Kevin P. WallaceVan of Valor Van of Valor Blog | Part 2 of 3 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE, N.M. – In our first installment, “The Weight of the Heart,” we explored the profound meaning behi…