Gabrielle and the rebels
Sixteen-year-old Gabrielle journeys to Andwarf with her father, warlord Simon March, where she is to become a vestal at the Temple of the Goddess. When Simon is robbed and killed, Gabrielle believes one of his former brothers-in-arms is responsible for her father's murder and suspects the city's governor is complicit. To make matters worse, her older brother is arrested for associating with a rebel faction and sentenced to die on the gallows. To...