Warrior Girl: A Novel of Joan of Arc

Set in France in 1428. Marianne’s mother has been murdered & her father killed in battle against the English. The shock of this is so strong that she has lost her voice. She is taken in by relations and is drawn to her cousin Jehanne (Joan of Arc) who asks her to join the cause for a free France. But Marianne has her own battles to fight over her inheritance as her father was actually a knight ( and although he & her mother never married) M stands to inherit his lands & castle if she can prove who she is by presenting a ring with the family seal on it before he wicked uncle steals it away.p.195 – 201Joan rallies the troops, is wounded and must pull out an arrow.