Scarlet

The people of Nottinghamshire know Will Scarlet as Robin Hood's shadow: a slip of a boy who throws daggers with deadly accuracy and steals with an unerring eye for treasure. A select few, Robin and his men, know Scarlet was taken in two years ago and taught the trade. No one outside the band knows Scarlet's real secret: that the boy terrorizing the sheriff's men is actually a girl, on the run from a past she won't talk about.

That secret is under threat from Gisbourne, the ruthless thief-taker just hired by the sheriff to hunt down Robin's gang, and Scarlet is the one person who can see just how dangerous he really is. As Gisbourne closes in and the people of Nottinghamshire start paying for the band's crimes, Scarlet's instinct to protect herself is at war with a loyalty she never meant to develop, to the town, to the band, and especially to flirtatious John Little and to Robin, whose temper and quick smiles keep getting past her guard.

A. C. Gaughen opens the Scarlet trilogy with a fast, physical Robin Hood retelling narrated entirely in Scarlet's own voice and secrets.