Octavia Gaudioso — Michael Mounts

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.