A young girl apprentices herself to an aging soldier to learn the skills she needs to take revenge against those who killed her family … Home is where the heart is, and for Sasha Martin that was a burned farm and dead parents. The Great War was over before she was born- there were treaties and agreements, they were supposed to be safe. But what the Imperium wanted it took, and with it, all that Sasha had known. Now, a decade later, having survived on charity and boiling hatred, she sees a chance to strike back at her enemies. There's an old man that lives outside of town … some call him a war hero. Gerard Appleby has been a man of war, a man of honor, and now a man alone for twenty years. But when a stubborn girl bent on vengeance shows up at his door demanding that he teach her the sword, he realizes that his days of warm beer and quiet guilt are over ... and there is a chance to tie up one loose end, one last battle that he should have fought twenty years ago.
