Anne Echols sa primárne zameriava na literárne skúmanie života žien v stredoveku. Jej prvé historické dielo nadväzuje na jej predchádzajúcu prácu v oblasti literatúry faktu, kde sa venovala rovnakému obdobiu. Autorka sa vo svojej tvorbe snaží oživiť minulé životy a ponúknuť čitateľom nový pohľad na historické udalosti prostredníctvom svojich postáv. Jej štýl je dôkladný a zameraný na detail, aby čo najvernejšie zachytila ducha doby.
Felise's debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years' War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be held captive, just as she is- but when Joan of Arc blazes into history and Felise's life, everything changes.
"Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.' "-John Bugge, Emory University