By Ginger Solomon
This is an older novel by MaryLu Tyndall, but I hadn’t read it yet. I have to be in the mood for fantasy, and I’m so glad I picked this one out of my myriads of Kindle books.
She Walks in Power starts out on a bang or rather a twang. Alexia D’Clere shoots an arrow at a stranger invading her home. The stranger is Ronar LePeine, a knight in the King’s Guard. And the adventure begins. Alexia gets into one scrape after another, some with hilarious outcomes, others defy death, but in every one, she fights for something greater than herself. She fights for God.
This book may have been written in 2016 (that’s the publishing date on Amazon, so we know it was written before then, lol), but it is so applicable to the struggles we face everyday, and even more so in today’s uncertainty. Alexia had to learn to fight her emotions–fear, hatred, guilt, and more–in order to trust God and allow His Spirit to fill her.
I highly recommend this novel. I’ve added books two and three, She Walks in Love and She Walks in Majesty to my Kindle to read next.
Here’s more about the story:
Alexia D’Clere didn’t ask to be Protector of the Spear, but after her dying mother gave her the tiny metal object and made her promise to keep it safe, she had no choice. Orphaned at age eight, she began to take over the running of her parent’s castle with the help of a trusted steward. Yet, when a plot to murder her was revealed, a friar whisked her away to live hidden in the forest. There, she learned to shoot expertly with bow and arrow and hone her skills to see into the spirit realm.
Now, at eighteen, Alexia continues to keep the Spear protected, provide meat for the starving village, while secretly caring for her ill sister who still lives in the castle. With Alexia’s powers of spiritual discernment and her skill as an archer, she is no match for those who come for the spear. That is until she meets Ronar LePeine, one of the King’s elite guard.
Ronar desires nothing more than to do his duty to God and King and pay penance for past sins. Yet a forest sprite with red, flaming hair blocks his every move, all the while enchanting him like no other. Something evil lurks at Castle Luxley, and both Ronar and Alexia are soon thrust into the middle of a spiritual battle which will not only test their very beliefs, but put them both in mortal danger.
