I Want to Be Your Hero

The universe is insistent on making John Felix “Puss” Trelli a hero. He doesn’t think he is, or ever could be. Yet every time he winds up in danger, he acts like the hero he thinks he cannot be. From the first pages, where he is attacked by a “mad” dog, he freezes, but the people around him see him as standing between them and the danger. He believes he’s given the St.George Medal for Valor under false pretenses, but he goes along with the War Bond tour with his handler, Corporal Svetlana Andreyevna Bergman. When he gets dragooned into taking Sveta to a wedding as her date, the rumors fly that they are an item. Will love blossom between these two? How can it, when Puss is stationed in a variety of foreign places. Can a relationship be made by mail? This exciting novel by the co-author of the Doctor Gribbleflotz books will give you an answer you might not expect.

Cover art by Jennie Faries

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Baen Ebook edition, May 2026
Original publication August 2022, 1632 Inc., Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press

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