Despite years of training and living together, Ashari's fellow novices never knew much about her childhood, other than it left her angry.
Now, in the fourth novel of The Kotidor Chronicles, With A Stroke of Her Sword, readers will finally learn the harrowing truth about Ashari's girlhood—kidnapped, forced to work in a silver mine, and driven to robbery to try to escape her captor.

Like her friends, Ashari begins training to become a warrior. Unlike them, if she fails, she might wind up in prison. Ultimately, she earns her sword and goes forth to enforce the laws of the Empire. When her duty returns her to her hometown, will Ashari find the birth family she never knew?