After the Princess's Kingdom Fell

Historical romance, set in an imagined world

A princess of a fallen kingdom flees into the wilderness with her younger brother, born of the same mother. Taking on a false identity, she joins an assassins' guild and spends ten years honing her sword. At seventeen, she enlists in the army, and five years later returns to her homeland with the army at her back. Conflict follows her at every turn. She had meant to restore her country, but when their feelings for each other are revealed, they seek another way forward. Three more years pass. The people are at peace, and she abdicates in favor of the worthy. The Chen dynasty ends there, but the martial world gains a benevolent physician, a red-clad heroine, and, years later, a retired wanderer who finds love with a carefree country farmer.