Sam and her team find more than they'd bargained for. It is feared that they seek to oust the Paladins. Her trainer, her hero from her past, Paladin Tristan Lyons, First of the Sword.Training, fighting demons, following the High Commander's bidding, and the continued battle to disguise her gender do take a toll, as does entering the enclave of a rival organization, The Uriel. An unforeseen circumstance-her co-trainee Braeden is a half demon. How did she get away with it? Privacy would not be the first thing on the travelling Paladins' minds).She succeeds.

Young woman (of noble birth) wants to be a Paladin, lives for sword fighting, and definitely doesn't want to be married off to decorate someone's holdings and birth the required heirs.Disguising herself as a boy, Sam (Samatha) heads off to paladin headquarters to try her luck.(I've got to say that all that breast binding and then hiding how the the 'call of nature' impacts differently for women would wear me out, let alone holding my own in sword fighting against a hulking successful Paladin. Maas with a dash of Tamora Pierce.A tried and true theme with a difference. Slater's writing reminds me a tad of Sarah J. Will saving the kingdom cost her life-or just her heart? Read moreĭreams of swords and honor!Great new female hero. A war between men is coming, and Sam must pick a side. He hasn't recognized her, but if he does, he'll take away her sword and send her packing.Īs demons wreak havoc across the land, rebellion stirs in the West, led by a rival faction of warriors. Pity that Tristan Lyons, the Paladin assigned to train her, is none other than the hero of her childhood. Disguised as a boy, Sam leaves home behind to fight demons-the most dangerous monsters in Thule-alongside the kingdom's elite warriors. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke of Haywood, and if her father has his way, she'll be marrying a Paladin, not becoming one.īut Sam has never held much interest in playing damsel-in-distress, and so she rescues herself from a lifetime of boredom and matrimonial drudgery. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam of Haywood is the most promising Paladin trainee in the kingdom of Thule.

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