The first Tammy stories were written 15 years ago so there's plenty of history. Here's a catch-up that takes you to the start of Flying High:

Tammyverse Series Summary

Tammy (Tamara) Smart is a 21 year old student and businesswoman. Her father, an international merchant banker, retired to take care of her before she left St Andrews School in Thurso, Scotland. Her father remarried and she has two step sisters, Suzie and Angela.

She was inducted into the world of Intelligence, age 18, after becoming a witness, and victim, to terrorism. Once her A Level exams had been concluded, Tammy spent the summer with MI5 forensic accountant Heather and Detective Sergeant Sophie in Cornwall learning trade-craft. The UK Security Service (MI5) paid for her Gender Confirmation surgery during that summer break (but will deny it!)

Tammy was issued a firearms certificate just before her nineteenth birthday (losing her virginity the same day) but was only issued a firearm for personal protection two weeks later. Her hesitation to use that weapon during a hostage incident caused her to be sent on a military course alongside Special Services personnel. She first met New Zealand born Capt. Kyle Fielding on that course..

Tammy started work full time for the Security Service after her first university course was disrupted. During that work she became involved with an American Intelligence (OICA - Office of Immediate Covert Action) Agent who brought intel on an emerging terrorist group “True Freedom” to the UK. That group sponsored an attack in a London coffee-shop where Tammy and the US agent were sat. The attack failed, because of Tammy and her OICA associate, but a subsequent inquest also turned bloody.

After her twentieth birthday, Tammy started back at university on a criminology course but, whilst there she also helped repel several True Freedom attacks alongside the Counter Terrorism Team of the Met Police and Security service. Around this time she gained a private pilots licence and a two seat plane.

Tammy had formed her own commercial property company and is a board member at the family-owned Smart Air Services based at Wick Airport in the far north of Scotland. She employed Joey Cooper as an office assistant at her Smart Properties company.

A specialist military team invited Tammy to join the Army (Broadsword Regiment) as a Lieutenant but she didn’t go through standard recruitment or officer training. This gives her access to additional intelligence , weaponry and training.

Tammy meets Fielding again on an exercise. He eventually beds her on whilst a subsequent dive training deployment. Her flight into Glasgow is diverted to Prestwick where her two seater is pulled apart. It is subsequently found to have an issue that could bring it down over water. She gains a replacement 2 seater plane and a commercial turboprop Epic.

An MI6/True Freedom mole accuses Tammy of being a True Freedom operative and she’s is frozen out of the intelligence community. Counter terrorism officer Kevin Edmunds supports her, as do American agents. That’s resolved but Tammy’s confidence is damaged. She finds she can’t trust MI5. Tammy covertly buys a house in the middle of Thurso, several miles from her parents’ home.

Tammy become involved more with the Americans and flies out to take part in training. Back in the UK she’s pulled between university and the Army. Eventually she meets Sir Thomas Addington, now Chair of the Intelligence Oversight Committee. Kyle Fielding has discovered she’s a transgender woman and tries to prevent Tammy from having access to military intelligence before physically assaulting her. She walks away, he doesn’t. She meets Corporal Maisie Staines and takes her back to Thurso against orders.

Tammy moves into the new house with Maisie as a guest but the girls become lovers. Maisie Staines proposes and Tammy arranges Maisie’s promotion to Sergeant - she joins Broadsword. Tammy meets Maisie’s father Master Sergeant Thomas Staines. Tammy and Maisie decide to try for a baby, using Tammy’s genetic material from a few years earlier. They start IVF process.

Tammy is sent for helicopter training with the RAF and meets a feminine flight lieutenant. On her final flying assessment she hears that Joey’s mother has been kidnapped and Tammy’s office is under attack. She abandons her test flight and takes second seat in an Apache. The threat is eliminated and Carol Cooper is physically unharmed, but distraught.

Tammy has been told to be available to babysit royals in the Caribbean later in the year. She and Maisie attend a pre-deployment training session near London and there meet Lizzie, the formerly male flight lieutenant from her helicopter training school. Lizzie is sent back to Thurso with Tammy and Maisie.

At pre-deployment training Tammy meets Lizzie, formerly an airman on her helicopter course and now a Flight Lieutenant. She takes Lizzie home to sort out her formal transition, before Marcus sends her somewhere else.

Tammy is accused of an improper relationship with her main lecturer and is suspended from her Criminology degree course.

Before flying out to the Caribbean, Tammy, Maisie, Lizzie and Joey’s mum all attend Abigail Adams House in North London, an MI5 premises used for training and debriefs. Joey’s mum, Carol Cooper, is there because of her Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following her rescue. Suzie Small, Tammy’s step-sister, is their liaison.

They flew to the Caribbean two weeks before the Royals arrive. Kyle Fielding and a woman arrive and start to threaten Tammy and the Royals, once they arrived. Kyle is captured and manages to turn the officers against Tammy.

Tammy and Maisie escape back to the UK and find themselves in an insurrection with the British establishment under threat. The leader of the insurrection is William Burgess. Tammy and Maisie take refuge in Royal Quarters and Suzie joins them there – before breaking security protocol.

Most of the antagonists are detained and Tammy’s safety is apparently assured. She and Maisie have tea with Queen Elizabeth before returning to Wick.

Plans are in place for a trip to the Isle of Man with her American friends (OICA). Burgess is known to be there and plans are made to intercept and detain him. Maisie discovers she's pregnant following IVF treatment.

The story continues in Snowfall's Butterflies, Asphalt & Insanity. During that story Burgess is detained and his helicopter is captured.

Tammy's story continues in Flying High.

Flying High is now out, as a part of the Rank Stupidity Kindle book, and will be published here in 2026.