“My mother died before I was born … I did not know how, but my life would be different.” So vows Shannon Wrightsdaughter, the eldest of so many unwanted daughters that the youngest are not even named.

Life in the Valley was carefully choreographed: males went to war in the Beyond at age fifteen, returning after years of service to marry and start a family. Females braided their hair and became women at the age of eleven, staying home to learn the wifely arts and marry the far older returning warriors at the Autumn Night festival. This was the birth legacy of Shannon Wrightsdaughter and her many younger sisters.

But Shannon has a different destiny. By accident, she learns a secret about the Valley’s enemy that the men of the Valley will keep at any cost. Betrothed to a cruel man as punishment for learning that secret, she flees into the Beyond where she discovers a world she could never have imagined.

Legacy is a fast-paced tale of adventure as a brave and desperate young woman discovers the truth about her people’s past. Plain-spoken Shannon’s wryly humorous voice is a clarion call to self-empowerment for a new generation.

Legacy is published by Creatrix Books.