Autumn's brother was an Outlier. A true Outlier. He burnt their village to the ground.Five years after her brother's death, seventeen-year-old Autumn now finds herself running from the king after being identified as an Outlier, too. The problem: she has no elemental abilities and most certainly does not plan to harm anybody. Before getting captured and put to death, she is rescued by Sage, a handsome double agent from the king's guard. Autumn enters the world of the Outliers. She b...

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers. Such women did not necessarily engage in masculine pur...