num_pages: 272
description: When she was a child the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began Once upon a time a young man went out to seek his fortune. But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago she decided to write it.In Book I of the trilogy Tamras arrives in Merin's house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior but her small stature causes many including Tamras herself to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion little more than a personal servant to a woman who came to Merin's house seemingly out of nowhere the previous winter and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.
language: English
title: The Warrior's Path
publisher: Shield Maiden Press