The Sheriff's Daughter

The Sheriff's DaughterSeventeen-year-old Elena has spent her life trusting the numbers. As the daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham, she keeps his ledgers, tracks his grain shipments, and believes-the way she believes in arithmetic-that her father's harsh rule is the only thing standing between the county and starvation.Then the numbers stop adding up.When Elena discovers a second set of books hidden beneath the scriptorium floor, the truth she finds there shatters everything she thought she knew: the famine gripping Nottingham isn't a tragedy of bad harvests. It's a calculation-grain diverted, taxes forged, and a county quietly starved to fund her father's grip on power.With nowhere else to turn, Elena carries the evidence into Sherwood Forest, where she strikes an uneasy alliance with Mark, a hardened outlaw with no patience for nobles and even less reason to trust the Sheriff's daughter. Together they begin a dangerous game of stolen ledgers, forged records, and desperate raids-one that puts lives on the line with every move, and draws Elena deeper into a world where the cost of justice is measured in blood, not bushels of grain.As her father's suspicion sharpens into certainty, Elena must decide how far she's willing to go-and what she's willing to lose-to bring down the only family she's ever known.The Sheriff's Daughter is a story about the weight of complicity, the price of telling the truth, and what it costs to dismantle a world built on lies you were raised to believe.