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According to
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Attack_on_Titan_light_novels#Harsh_Mistress_of_the_City)
there are three light novel volumes titled _Before the Fall_ , which are
prologues to the anime/manga storyline. I saw another light novel titled
_Harsh Mistress of the City_ which comes right after them.

Does that novel tell the story from where the anime and the manga is starting?


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Where is this Shingeki no Kyojin light novel in the series' timeline?


The manga & anime starts with the fall of wall Maria's southern district
(manga chapter 1 & 2).  
The story in the novel starts with Wall Maria being pierced [Reference
here](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan:_Queen_of_the_Isolated_City).  
The manga stated that it has been a hundred years of peace within the walls
(again chapter 1).  
Meaning that the wall has never been breached before.  
So this means that the start of the story on the novel is around the time the
manga is.


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The spin-off light novel [**Attack on Titan: Queen of the Isolated
City**](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan:_Queen_of_the_Isolated_City),
subtitled _The Harsh Mistress of the City_ , is set in the year of 845, a few
days after the appearance of the Colossal Titan in the main series
[[source](http://shingeki-kyojin.com/archives/39591537.html)]. After the
breach of Wall Maria, Titans appeared in the [Quinta
District](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Quinta_District) and chaos
ensued in this isolated city. So far, only the first volume has been released,
on August 1, 2014. There is a legal [free
sample](http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063752960) in Japanese.

![The Harsh Mistress of the City volume 1
cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KRo5gm.jpg)

Two volumes in total were planned for this spin-off. The info was given on a
flier included in Volume 12 of the main series.

![Volume 12 flier](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uIUAkm.png)


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