"Matylda" by Alexander J. Harron

Matylda Donelle was loved in her family. But something was corrupting the thoughts of her family: some outsider was feeding lies and dark rumours. For a while the family did not heed such claims. But it was not long that they started to believe the false claims. They were tricked and decieved into thinking their wayward sister had been a cruel assassin, that her journeys into other kingdoms were campaigns of thievery and violence. Though common sense and logic were with them, somehow, the teller of lies enthralled the family, and they decided that Matylda had to die.

At her Ceremony of Ascension, they struck. Matylda's sisters and aunts and cousins all surrounded her. Matylda fought, and in the slaughter that followed only she remained.

Why did this happen? How could her family do this? Who did this to her family? Questions that Matylda, newly deemed Scornheart, will seek answers to in her journeys. Carrying the Peacehammer of her mothers, bearing the many scars of her family's onslaught, she will walk to the ends of the earth to find out...