Dodie was introduced in Book 1 as a six-year-old. She was abducted by professionals hired by the Illuminati and lived ten years on an isolated Mediterranean island as a sex slave for an old man at the top of the Illuminati Pyramid.
In Book 2 she is barely mentioned. In Book 3 she escapes, fights her way across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, occupied America—leaving a trail of blood behind her—and reaches the border of the five-state coalition of Free America. The day she gets home she sees her militia leader grandpa killed in a battle with the United Nations Blue Helmets. Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn then becomes leader. In their first battle with Muslims (Book 4) Dodie rescues two little girls and becomes their foster mother. Jocelyn is soon killed in a battle with the super soldiers (Book 5.) Finally—at age sixteen—Dodie assumes command of the Sanborn Militia of east-central North Dakota.
America is in a war to preserve the America many/most of us grew up in. While we were sleeping some wrong people assumed power and began changing everything. Some people saw what was happening (though few people believed them) and began preparing. Series is very close to what is happening in America and the world today.
Book 6 ends the series. Eventually the series will become a box set.