Joanna spends three brutal campaigns coaching, defending, and elevating four elite male warriors into the empire's most celebrated fighting unit. Instead of honoring her dedication, the ungrateful retainers cast her aside the moment a flashier swordswoman catches their attention. Stripped of her command officer title and sentenced to front-line conscription, Joanna finds herself discarded by the very men whose lives she repeatedly saved.
Rather than submitting to disgrace, Joanna severs ties with her old squad and gathers an unconventional retinue of loyal, outcast consorts to conquer uncharted battlegrounds. As her previous disciples flounder without her tactical genius, Joanna ascends toward sovereign military dominion.
