What if the stories
you've been told about yourself were never true?
Warrior's
daughter
Robin Lee Kennedy
cover art:
Catherine Nyirenda
A story about what happens when a girl begins to remember who she is—and refuses to disappear.
Warrior’s Daughter is the first book in a six-book illustrated YA fantasy saga by Robin Lee Kennedy about inheritance, rage, and the systems that train girls to disappear.
Fourteen-year-old Ari Rowan begins to sense a truth that refuses to stay buried: what she has been taught to fear in herself is not weakness, but lineage.
This is not a story about becoming powerful. It is about remembering what was taken.
BOOK ONE
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 13, 2026
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Something was taken from women and girls.
Warrior’s Daughter is the first doorway into a larger remembered world by Robin Lee Kennedy—one built from stories, artifacts, and histories that were nearly erased.
Together, they challenge what women and girls have been taught to believe about themselves: that silence is safety, anger is dangerous, and the limits placed upon us are proof of who we are.
Warrior’s Daughter tells the story.
The Museum preserves what survived.
The Watchfire carries it into the present.
The Great Hall opens the door.
Enter
the Remembered World
Warrior’s Daughter is the first book in a six-book illustrated saga about inheritance, rage, and the systems that train girls to disappear.
Beyond
the Story
Some stories are read. Some leave things behind.
The world of Warrior’s Daughter extends beyond Ari’s story. In the Museum, fragments of a forgotten past are being gathered again—marks, objects, stories, and artifacts that point toward a people whose history was nearly erased.
What they left behind raises questions about how they lived, what they believed, what was lost—and why some people refused to let it disappear.
the
Great Hall
The Ghinari believed that the unopened door
proves nothing about the one standing before it.
Here, we open doors.
A place to make, learn, question, teach, fail, try again—and discover something about yourself you could only learn by doing.
You do not need to arrive accomplished.
You do not need permission.
You do not need to know what you are capable of.
That is what the Hall is for.
The Woman Building the World
Robin Lee Kennedy is the author of Warrior’s Daughter and the maker behind EMBERMARK. A former U.S. Marine and longtime technology and risk leader, she spent over three decades inside systems that taught her exactly how power protects itself.
Now, in a workshop in Virginia called The Great Hall, she writes the stories, forges the copper, carves the wood, and builds the remembered world of Thora Greyhawk, Ari, and the Ghinari by hand.
She is building all of it to wake women and girls to the truth:
we have been lied to for thousands of years.
We are not lesser. We are not naturally subservient. We are capable of leading, making, choosing, and determining who we become.
meet
Thora Greyhawk
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Thora Greyhawk is the warrior whose recovered story stands at the center of the remembered world.
She lived in a world that had forgotten the Ghinari. She began asking why.
What survives of her story comes to us in fragments—objects, marks, stories, and Echoes preserved by those who refused to accept the lie—or let the past disappear. Thora's story unfolds over the entire Warrior's Daughter series.