The Empress of Ventra: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book One

Rhiannon Kossi has been plagued by nightmares but when she goes looking for answers to her past she realizes her future is much more complicated and dangerous than she ever thought possible. Rhiannon fights her way through a land divided by a bloody civil war to find answers among her people, a brutal race of northern warriors, only to discover she must play her part in an ancient prophecy. Along the way she finds friendship with Flath, the young gypsy who is leading the rebellion to free his land from the oppressive rule of an evil usurper queen.