When high-school student, Ronin Kassius, took a detour on his way home to get a bite to eat after enduring a long week at Telos Academy, he never expected his life to change in such a dramatic fashion. Witnessing Ar Telica, the coastal city he lives in suddenly become dead and deserted, he encounters a strange yet familiar doll-like girl, and experiences his apparent death.Attending school the following week, he chooses to believe it was a dream until he's contacted by an individual calling himself a Maestro who reveals that Ronin died when he was scooped up into the Sliver, a copy of his reality existing in Decaying Space, and serving as an arena.Gifted with a temporary body while his remains are preserved for regeneration, Ronin learns that to get it back he has to fight in the Princess Royale. However he won't be doing so as a man, but as a girl -- a Gun Princess by the name of """"Mercedes"""" -- a special existence that can survive in the Sliver and Decaying Space.With his Maestro nicknamed Jive as a guide, instructor, tormentor, and confidant, Ronin must learn to master Mercedes and compete with other Gun Princesses for the title of Gun Queen - or he may never get his real body back.A high-school battle rom-com with a 'twist'.Book One / Volume One now available on Amazon Kindle.(Important note to new & old readers: Telos Academy diagram posted on blog page: http://www.pridesfamiliarsmaidens.com)