Trixie has enough. A roof over her head, food to eat, and the run of Vilasch city of when she has finished her work. But she longs to train with the girls of nobility in the palace. In between these daydreams, adventure has a way of finding her, like Darius, the shaggy mongrel shunned by the palace hounds who decided they were best friends.
One Seventhday, Trixie ventures outside the city walls for archery practice and finds more than she bargained for …
Arathea has everything she needs. Even with the food, more than enough is provided to her and the other sisters in training. Everything in her life is prescribed for her to one day be named a protector of the kindgom, a revered Sister of Fury. Within her devoted and duty bound life she seeks to make better decisions than those who trained before her, breaking down the age-old barriers that a person’s birthright affords.
While training in the palace courtyard with her fellow Sisters, Arathea spies someone in the distance, through a window, watching, mirroring their movements …
Qi-Xin has seen first-hand what the desire for more can do to even the best people of the continent of Lysea. She evaded compulsory military service for orphaned girls by escaping the city. Now she lives in the surrounding forest, seeking to free others from that same fate. She wants to do more, but what can a rabble of adolescent girls accomplish against the war-torn kingdom’s need for a military?
On a trip to liberate the latest roundup of orphans being transported to Vilasch, things take an unexpected turn …