I love this subtle hero, a middle aged woman standing at a turning point in her life where she has to define herself after her kids are grown up and her mother is dead. 
 (view spoiler)[ She goes on a pilgrimage to escape her life but she is not devout she curses the gods at every opportunity she is captured by enemy soldiers that are lost. She is saved by a border lord and brought back to his castle where she discovers something is amiss. The local lord is dead but animated by his wife that has possessed a demon in her mind and is therefore a sorcerer. It dawns on our hero that she is there as a tool for the gods, and the task is to save the dead lords soul that is sundered and cannot return to his god. They are attacked and laid under siege by an enemy army where the queen has an ancient demon and is able to control 18 demons in her retainers. The enemy sorcerers wreak havoc on the defenders and they are on the brink of defeat. The local lord lends strength from his unwilling wife and brothers and rides out to kill the enemy sorcerers. He kills seven sorcerers but is slain and our hero is enabled by the gods to channel his soul back to his god. They are still in dire straits and comes up with a plan for our hero to meet the enemy queen, she just has to surrender. She is brought before the enemy queen and takes the ancient demon back to the bastard god and with it the demons it controls. 
 Reinforcements arrives and the rout the enemy army. Our hero gets her love and goes on a sacret mission to remove demons from the world. 
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 Great characters, that evolve over time a nice world where magic plays an backseat role and a medieval setting. 
 I can definitely recommend this book. 
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