“Whoever loves me, follow me!” – with this cry she was the first to rush into battle. They followed her, they believed her, she was idolized by the most desperate fighters, who were not afraid of either God or the devil. Legends were made about her exploits. She was canonized and called the Savior of France. She is presented as a heroine without fear or reproach...On the pages of this novel a completely different Joan of Arc appears - not the depersonalized sexless saint of the Church Lives and not a bronze monument that knows no horror and doubt, but a living, mortal, very young girl who was desperately afraid of blood and pain, but, overcoming fear, she led thousands of men into battle. She shouldered on her fragile shoulders, in addition to the weight of armor, also a monstrous burden of responsibility for the fate of her homeland, she endured more than the strongest and most persistent of her knights - a bloody nightmare of hand-to-hand combat, severe wounds, royal ingratitude, betrayal, an unfair trial - she did not falter either on the battlefield, or in the dungeon, or on the scaffold, she went to the stake for the sake of her faith and the salvation of her fatherland. Read the new novel from the bestselling author of “Princess Olga” and “Cleopatra” - an amazing story about the incredible courage of the “weak » women, before whom the exploits of the most valiant men pale!