Kingfall (The Kingfall Histories, #1)

by David Estes

The past cannot be changed, she thought. Nor can it be erased. It lives on in the minds of those who survived it, even if history is rewritten by the victors.

Despite getting the best education that gold could buy, she was beginning to realize the world was full of things that needed to be learned by doing rather than reading.

History was written not based on fact, but by those who survived the day.