The Water Outlaws

Lin Chong is a skilled arms master in the empire of Song until a petty, vengeful member of the royal court decides to ruin her. Framed, brutalized, and marched toward a prison camp, she is nearly killed on the road before the Liangshan bandits take her in. These are the outlaws of Marsh, a hundred and eight righteous rebels who have carved out a sanctuary for people the empire has discarded for the wrong gender, the wrong past, or the wrong sense of right. As the court moves against them with ten thousand imperial troops and a terrible new weapon, Lin Chong and her new comrades stake everything on a stand that history says they cannot win.