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I Am Warrior
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781082765124
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My name is ⁝---, and since you are reading this, I am dead.
The sun decides who lives: the darker your skin, the longer you can bear it. The air kills men. And in the border country of Queen Lisa, Queen of Queens, where no tree is allowed to stand within a mile of her walls, a woman falls out of the sky in a ball of fire.
She is one of some fifty scouts sent ahead of a war to choose the ground it will be fought on. Humans who look on her true shape go mad, so she wears a human one. In it, she understands every language on Earth. No one on Earth can understand hers.
The Queen chains her beneath the compound and waits to learn what she is. The Queen's daughter gives her half a name instead: Mari.
Before Mari can speak a single word, she overhears a scout describe a hamlet on the west road cut to pieces in one night. She knows exactly what did it, and she has no way to warn anyone. When the words finally come, her first sentence makes the Queen laugh. Her first lies are that she came alone, and that nothing else is coming.
She was sent to measure this dying world, not to care about it. But the compound teaches her its people one at a time: a princess who counts the suit testers out into the sun and back again, a young poet who speaks the names of the dead, a survivalist named Zander who pulled her out of a storm and has never once asked what she is. Mari wins a place among the Queen's warriors, marches north to crush a rebellion, and learns what six sister queens will do to keep their walls standing.
Now lights are rising from the hills at night. Strangers are turning up in all six houses. And the sky is waiting for Mari's report.
What she tells it will decide who lives. What she keeps from it may cost her everything.
Epic and intimate, strange and deeply human, I Am Warrior is the story of a war fought over our heads, and of the soldier who fell into the middle of it and chose a side.
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