A Secret History

A swashbuckling tale of mercenary warfare in the High Middle Ages. Ash kills her first man at the age of eight and rises meteorically to command her own company against a Burgundy that is not quite the duchy we know. A 20th-century scholar transcribing her tale realizes gradually that evidence and history are crumbling under him and the voices in Ash's head that advise her on tactics are not those of saints.