Sword Woman

Wow! Talk about Marysue :-D
Agnes de Chastillon, Agnes de la Fére... did Robert choose the name deliberately to attach Agnes to Athos? :-D
This is a wonderful swashbuckling adventure with the sword woman, worth 10 men with her sword. It starts with her killing her fiance on the altar and running away from her village and dastardly father. Then she meets Etienne Villiers (Alexandre Dumas' George Villiers was the Duke of Buckingham :-D), and they start traveling together, but Etienne then sells her to another guy, and we have a fantastic scene of Agnes storming the room, throwing a knife at the buyer killing him instantly, and then beating Etienne up so badly he almost dies.
I imagine she's like 16 or so, because she mentions she wasn't yet a woman, and she was forced to be married :-D I don't think her age was ever mentioned. Or time. They throw around invented names and things like that, but I think it's kind of Three Musketeers fan fiction, so probably somewhere there in time :-D
And it continues like that :-D The first time she holds a sword, she kills half a dozen seasoned villains. :-D

I mean, I am totally giddy about this book - or collection of short stories, what it really is. It's 3 or 4 short stories, 3 written by Howard, and 1-2 (I'm not quite sure how many those are, because they are just continuation of the 3rd story), about 100 pages, so it's really not a book, but anyway, I just want to laugh all the time.

Absolutely fabulous :-D