Toto sága sleduje cestu mladej ženy, ktorá opustí svoj skromný pôvod a vydá sa v ústrety vojenskej sláve ako žoldnierka. Jej sny o hrdinských činoch sa však stretávajú s drsnou realitou armádneho života. Napriek prekážkam a sklamaniam ju jej odhodlanie, česť a integrita poháňajú vpred. Jej neľahká púť ju nakoniec premení na legendárnu hrdinku, predurčenú na obnovenie stratenej vlády.
Paksenarrion--Paks, for short--refuses her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road and is off to join the army. And so her adventure begins--the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restore a lost ruler to his throne.
Now a seasoned combat veteran, Paksenarrion must seek the fabled stronghold of Luap far to the west. The way is long, the dangers many -- and none can say whether glory or ruin awaits ..
Paks was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father's orders and married the pig farmer from down the road. Better a soldier's life than a pigfarmer's wife, and so though she knew that she could never go home again, Paks ran away to be a soldier. And so began an adventure destined to transform a simple Sheepfarmer's Daughter into a hero fit to be chosen by the gods