About the Book
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.
In the first year of her journey, Tamras will make a series of choices that often seem insignificant, but they will flow from her character and from her good intentions, and they will determine her destiny.
Catherine M. Wilson, author of the When Women Were Warriors trilogy, has spent most of her working life as an engineer of one sort or
another (broadcast engineer, software engineer) and people who know that side
of her are surprised when they learn about the writing side. Catherine says, “I
like science and engineering because I like to know how things work, and I like
the arts because I like to know how people work.”
An avid reader from earliest childhood, Catherine searched
in vain for the book she wished she could have read as a young woman. The first
line of that book would have been: “Once upon a time, a young woman set out to
seek her fortune.” Having passed her half-century mark without finding the book
she wanted, she decided that she would have to write it herself. But her first
line is a bit more chilling: “All the women of my family had gone to war.”
Catherine’s mother did in fact go to war in 1942, so there
is more than a ring of truth to the line, as there is more than a ring of truth
to the story, its setting and its characters. All are rooted deeply in the
author’s experience and in her lifelong study of myth, legend, fairy tale, and
folklore.
Catherine lives in a mountain cabin in Boulder Creek, California, with her cat Jamie.
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