The Girl From the Emeraline Island Author:Robert S. Blum About sixteen, the boy was already a good swordsman, a natural horseman, and a wrangler of his school's cattle herds. Unfortunately, "he" was very much a she. In Earth's provincial culture, after the interstellar war, women were to marry young, bear sons -- and obey their husbands. But Ellia Kellzi was tough, smart, and fast --... more » and nobody was going to stand between her and independence.
At the Stone Coast, she learned to ride like the wind and fight like a man. In the great Open city, she won the trust of two of the People, wolflike humanoids from a land across the sea. And in the dreaded Blasted Hills, she faced madness, terror, and even death to learn the most terrible secret of the Emeraline Island.« less