Sasha Small answered the call of the Renaissance.
She is now a corporal in the Third Field Regiment. Her days are filled with her duties, her friends, and whenever she has time, her books.
The Templar Project is meant to craft the future leaders of the Renaissance. General Prince and General Caesar will devote instructors, resources, and every book they have towards that goal.
And they want Sasha to be part of it.
Corporal Small becomes Cadet Scholar, one of twelve Templar Cadets. The cadets are challenged and pushed, exposed to the grand nature of the Renaissance Movement and the dangers of war.
All stumble, all fall, but not all stand up again.
Elsewhere, the Royal Army is waking up. The Renaissance Army is about to face a terrible foe, and Sasha Small will be front and center.
Sasha must become the officer she believes she can be, or the Renaissance is done for.