Dagger-Star
Author: Elizabeth Vaughan
 
She is a mercenary trained in the ways of war and the blade - nothing more. A woman known only as Red Gloves has come to the land of Palins in search of work. What she finds, however, is the torched fields and razed farms of a land defiled.
If you see her without the gloves, run . . . This is all Josiah knows about the mysterious woman - until he catches a glimpse of the dagger-star birthmark, a sign that she is destined to free his people from a ruthless usurper's reign of terror.
But she is more dangerous when following her heart  . . . Red doesn't believe in gods. Nevertheless, she finds herself drawn into the rebellion - not by the prophecy or the chance to win the throne, but the pain of untold loss in Josiah's eyes . . .
 
BERKLEY SENSATION BOOKS 1st MASS PAPERBACK APRIL 2008
ISBN: 9780425220610