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The break neck pace story telling continues. The Soldier Girls have to capture an entire planet, and that be just to begin with. Good thing their schedules were clear. There's more than one alien race that wants to own this good for nothing rock, and the Soldier Girls are here to drive them off. Too bad all communication has broken down. Its not like the chain of command can be expected to maintain that sort of thing. Anyway, just hurry up and wait, we'll figure out the rest of your assignment before the enemy comes to kill you. Of course, the enemies are always bigger and badder...more bad? Whatever, times are tough, and our Heroines always rise to the challenge.

The Sword Maiden Princess returns to Sparta, and just in time to be pressed into service. Sparta is at war with the entire Achaean League, and the Tyrant of Sparta insists on the Gentle Stepper herself leading the armies of Sparta. Just to help her along, he hands off his troublesome daughter into the custody of that same Gentle Stepper. The phalanx forms, the cavalry rides, and the Gentle Stepper is there, always in the middle of the melee.

The Sword-Princess is called to save the Kingdom, nay, save the world from the menace of the Mamluk Empire. The desperate Queen Olympias and her people have suffered long from the Mamluk predations and now they are ready to strike back, if only they had a leader. Ju-Dan, the Living-Saint of the Steel Blade answers the call of a people in need. Driven by an ambition to do great things, Ju-Dan contorts herself to the political machinations of the environment so that she can gain a position of power, and then lead a war against an enemy that massively outnumbers her army. From beginning to end Ju-Dan never stops maneuvering to overcome her enemies, be they military, political, or spiritual. Ju-Dan is changing that she might fulfil inward desires she only now is realizing. At one time she only sought to be the greatest sword-hand ever seen. Now Ju-Dan seeks to conquer the entire face of the entire world.

The Gentle Stepper fights hell itself, all to preserve her child. After going so far with the girl, nothing will keep her from protecting the child. She finds herself in environments beyond her ken, and led by forces unseen. Yet she fights on, all to protect the child, all to do what she thinks she must.

Home to Arcadia, yet Arcadia has never been home to the Gentle Stepper. Ju-Dan is the Gentle Stepper and she's now dragooned into a series of harrowing errands in a land she's never seen before. The hand of the Divine is at work, and Ju-Dan is ever a pawn in that game. The missions are dangerous, and the rewards seem slim as the escapades escalate with duels to be fought and fools to be rescued. Kingdoms are facing calamity, and monarchs are moved to seek aid in the most desperate ways: calling on the exalted sword-maiden princess, Ju-Dan. The land of Arcadia is in crisis: Sorcerers operate openly, innocents are indiscriminately victimized, and fiends are never far from perpetrating their next evil scheme. It is also people's hearts that are in conflict, and the distressed are not above running off into the night, falling into the clutches of creatures nocturnal, and who is going to rescue them then?

A new challenge. An Investigation. A new enigmatic enemy. A battle, at the last moment, at hectic pace. Everything is on the line. Everything could be lost, with so many new things to be won. Octavia sends her Soldier Girls against an unknown enemy; upon the worst ground anyone could ever fight. A college campus! The battle is fierce. Lives are lost, and a new face of the devil is unmasked. Nothing is sacred, and nothing is safe. The fight must go on!

Mina Magnus returns to contend with strange events out on the salt flats, forces that may have foul intentions toward her home, the Market Town.A stranger comes out of the wasteland promising Mina Magnus aid and possibly her only salvation.This stranger is promising help, yet her methods and words are beyond bizarre. A battle is fought, and nothing will ever be the same.Lives are at stake, and the battle is fierce.This is the first Novel of the Redemption Series, and the battle will be fierce.

The Sword Maiden Princess returns most triumphantly in her fifth adventure. The Living Saint of the Steel Blade, traveling in prestige and grandeur to meet her exalted status goes to save the kingdom from itself. No one can stop the Regina Imperator or her master plan. The Gentle Stepper is back, and none will be able to stop her, or even slow her down!

Prisoner, Pirate, soldier, and warlord, the Gentle Stepper, Ju-Dan climbs up from the lowest disgrace in this stunning Eleventh volume of her adventures. From the seas of the far south, to the coastal cities of the far north, Ju-Dan battles her enemies in service to her masters with brutal efficiency. Rivals are cut down with ruthless, surgical efficiency. Terrors are faced, and monsters are defeated. Exploding shells fly, bombs burst in air, and before it is over, you will believe a horse soldier can capture a battleship. Ju-Dan fights for justice, yet she cuts down her enemies like the bloodiest barbarian. Indeed, long before her time with the Khan is done, Ju-Dan will find herself covered in blood fighting his foes.

The Gentle Stepper must return to Achaean service and finish the work she began. Her enemies are more diabolical, and far more murderous. The treachery she will face is also ever present. She is a woman seeking to conquer everything, and with her sword in hand she has no fear of any enemy. This volume sees the Gentle Stepper journey to the rivers at the end of the world, and she struggles to defeat the direst host of devils conceivable. Yet the enemy above all is monster within.

The worlds of politics and business never slow down, change is constant, and people surrender their liberties willingly when fresh bread is offered freely, and their ticket to the circus is paid for by others. The pathways to restoring a republic are often circuitous, and arduous. Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls are given the mission: strike the coup de grâce, thus restoring liberty. A cinema motion picture must be made, and a king must be brought down. The Soldier Girls go to work, and even while life is changing, they soldier on, doing the bidding of their mistress, and facing the enemy head on. The Ninth Novel of Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls takes the small troop far and wide, down many roads, and to a whole new world. Don't bother asking the name, life goes on. Alexander was right: worlds are to be conquered, and that's what the Soldier Girls do, conquer a world under a fresh sunrise as they pin for the vacation they never seem to really get, at least not for a long while. Old friends are revisited, new skills are learned, dinner parties are filled with intrigue, and the Soldier Girls face it with a determination to overcome all obstacles. Will the cost be too high? Will the wear and tear be too much? People are fragile, and they can break when you bend them too much.

The Gentle Stepper returns to the Empire, in power and glory, only to fall victim to all the machinations and manipulations men and women can muster. Striving to meet all the obligations she takes upon her shoulders, and meet those duties laid upon her by others, Ju-Dan, the Gentle Stepper bears it all with grace, poise, and a blood-stained sword in hand. No one can stand against her when our Gentle Stepper turns all her fury against whatever impedes her, and nothing can endure her wrath when it is unleashed in its fullness.

Sylvie Olivia works hard. At everything. Whatever she wants to do, nothing is left behind. She gives her all, and nothing is left undone.Truly, nothing is left behind.Everything might be revealed. Yet not all things can be made clear. For Sylvie, leaving with a touch of mystery is the way it must be. As much sorrow as it gives us to see anything end, all things come to that end.In a way, this is the heroine's farewell.

Reaching for your goals can be hard. There can be lulls in the excitement. Never stop. The only limits to what you can do are self-imposed. In this volume, daring Sylvia reaches to new heights, and struggle to achieve her loftiest ambitions. Our girl lets nothing stop her, and she does so with a smile, despite the wear and tear of the day. Weather it's putting in a full day's work, or bringing home a big supper for her family, Sylvie does it all. Even if that mean a sticky, extra errand that leaves hard to wash out stairs. Sylvie Olivia does it all.