num_pages: 314
description: She knows women are expected to marry cook and have children not go to war. Can she manage to stay alive save her mother and keep the handsome son of a duke from discovering her secret?When Mulan takes her father's place in battle against the besieging Teutonic Knights she realizes she has been preparing for this journey her whole lifeand that her life and her mother's depends on her success. As the adopted daughter of poor parents Mulan has little power in the world. If she can't prove herself on the battlefield she could face deathor perhaps worse marriage to the village butcher.Disguised as a young man Mulan meets the German duke's son Wolfgang who is determined to save his people even if it means fighting against his own brother. Wolfgang is exasperated by the new soldier who seems to be one step away from disaster at all timesor showing him up in embarrassing ways. From rivals to reluctant friends Mulan and Wolfgang begin to share secrets.But war is an uncertain time and dreams can die as quickly as they are born. When Mulan receives word of danger back home she must make the ultimate choice. Can she be the son her bitter father never had? Or will she become the strong young woman she was created to be?This fresh reimagining of the classic tale takes us fifteenth-century Lithuania where both love and war challenge the strongest of heroes.
language: English
title: The Warrior Maiden
publisher: Thomas Nelson