Aiza will have to choose between her loyalty to the Empire, her heritage, her dreams and her friends. As the pressure mounts, Aiza comes to realise that she and the other recruits are in danger, and that the stories they were told about "serving the greater good" were just propaganda spun by the Empire and the merciless General Hende. The competition among the recruits is fierce, the training is difficult, and there are new friendships and rivalries to navigate. She quickly finds that training as a Squire is not how she imagined it. Squire tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Aiza, born a second-class citizen in the Bayt-Sajji Empire, who makes the decision to hide her heritage as a member of the recently conquered Ornu people and chase her dream of becoming a Knight in an attempt to gain full citizenship. Squire is 336-pages long, suitable for young adult readers, and was published by Quill Tree Books on 8 March 2022. Squire is a debut fantasy graphic novel from Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas, two rising stars in the comic book world, who teamed up together to tell a story about friendships, rivalries, and colonialism set in an alternate-history version of the Middle East and North Africa.
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