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Warrior's Daughter
A series for fierce girls & the women who remember.
Book Details
Title: Warrior’s Daughter
Author: Lily Ann Fenwyn
Publisher: EchoForge Press
ISBN: 978-1-970469-03-5
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publication Date: Summer 2026
Page Count: Approximately 280 pages
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About the Author
Lily Ann Fenwyn is the pen name of Robin L. Kennedy, a former U.S. Marine, technology executive, and founder of RISE United. After three decades in leadership roles, she turned her attention to the stories, symbols, and forgotten histories that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us.
Her work explores courage, memory, friendship, and the enduring strength carried by generations of women. Warrior’s Daughter is her debut novel and the first book in an illustrated fantasy series inspired by the belief that some truths are not learned—they are remembered.
She lives in Virginia, where she writes, creates artifacts in the Great Hall, and occasionally answers the call of old stories.
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warrior's
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Lily Ann Fenwyn
Cover art: Catherine Nyirenda
What if the stories you've been told about yourself were never true?
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It's about the moment a girl realizes she has been taught to shrink and can no longer do it without lying to herself. ​It is not a story about defeating a system, but about recognizing one: the quiet, inherited forces that reward silence and punish refusal.​​​​​​​
~CAUTION~
This book does not offer instructions, empowerment slogans, or easy resolution. It offers something rarer—recognition. The kind that restores self-trust, sharpens perception, and leaves the reader awake to their own choices.
"Warrior's Daughter is part fantasy, part memoir - a six-book YA series where ancient mythology & lived experience meet and the power comes from remembering what we were taught to forget."
~ Lily Ann Fenwyn
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Warrior’s Daughter is a six-book illustrated YA saga about inheritance, rage, and the systems that train girls to disappear. Set in a world where myth presses against modern life, the story follows Ari Rowan as she 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 a story about remembering what was taken. Through mythic realism, Warrior’s Daughter explores how girls learn to shrink for safety, how anger is redirected inward, and how silence is mistaken for survival. The series treats rage as information, inheritance as memory carried in the body, and awakening as something dangerous—not gentle, not convenient, and not without consequence.
As Ari moves from fourteen to eighteen across the series, the pressure intensifies. Authority is questioned. Obedience fractures. The past presses forward. The world does not soften to accommodate her awakening—and neither does the story. What emerges instead is a reckoning with the systems that shape girls long before they have language for what is happening to them.
Illustrated throughout and developed as a long-form narrative project, Warrior’s Daughter is built with restraint, structure, and intention. It is written for girls who feel the pressure now—and for adult women who wish they'd recognized it sooner, or have carried it for decades.
This is not comfort fiction. It is witness fiction—stories that name what has been endured, and what refuses to stay silent.
Warrior's
daughter
Lily Ann Fenwyn
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Book I is planned for release in 2026.​
Ari Rowan is fourteen years old and already fluent in silence. She has learned how to read rooms, manage other people’s expectations, and keep her anger folded inward where it won’t cause trouble. The world rewards this. The system depends on it. But something in Ari begins to resist—quietly at first, then with pressure she can no longer ignore.
What stirs is not guidance. It is inheritance. As myth bleeds into the waking world through echoes, Ari experiences interruptions she cannot explain and sensations she cannot dismiss—heat, rage, recognition. She is not given power. She remembers it. And remembering carries consequence. Authority notices. Relationships strain. The safety of being invisible fractures.
Book I is not a coming-of-age story in the traditional sense. It is a story of awakening under pressure—of what happens when a girl recognizes that obedience has a cost, and that silence has never truly protected her. The myth does not arrive to save Ari; it arrives to demand something of her.
Told through mythic realism and illustrated throughout, Warrior’s Daughter treats anger as information, awakening as dangerous, and inheritance as something carried in the body long before it is understood. It is written for readers who feel the tension between survival and selfhood—and who know that choosing to stop shrinking is not the same as being ready for what follows.
