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Amidst a world built from the ruins of old prison colonies, a trio of women bond while stuck working for the same obnoxious dragon. Before long, they're plotting to teach the dragon a comedic lesson in respect. Meanwhile, an enigmatic and dangerous female gryphon digs deeper into the many secrets buried beneath The Mire. Secrets better off forgotten... Secrets like the one hidden beneath all the treasures and black powder weapons of the dragon's hoard... A bartender. A thief. A runaway princess. Paddles. The Maiden Squad: A fantasy comedy that's never what it seems.

**CURRENTLY A FEATURED STORY** highest ranking: #11 in Science fiction ❝true happiness is only achieved without freedom. There is a girl who wakes to a world that she was supposed to protect. Instead, she fights it. There is a man who is cursed with the ability to dream. A glass city is their cage, a city filled to the brim with unanimity and order, a paradise on an earth laid to waste by an artificial snowstorm. Sunlight filters through the glass buildings and through glass walls, pierces glass floors. It illuminates the city square when it is strongest at noon, surrounded by a huddled mass of citizens, all as perfect as the city they inhabit. And they all think: everything is as it should be. And it is. Or, it was. -- long live perfection.❞ (c)sarahgaier2016 #diverselit | #LoveEqualsLove | #helpfightcliches | #freethelgbtq | #badassreads check out my Science Fiction novella, Sector-33, here! https://www.wattpad.com/story/62174094-sector-33