The Long Road Home (From the Desk of Col. Garrett Ross)

The Clements Academy was established, somewhere around the year 2045, to train the best and brightest orphans from around the world into the perfect agents. Weapons and martial arts are just a taste of the curriculum for students. Alexis is the one orphan Garrett Ross has serious doubts about. After all, Clements admits ten year olds, and her parents are viciously murdered when she's nine.