YA Fantasy. Girl forced to wear chain on body and be in military of sorts. Read around 2013.

[Rachael]

I read this in like 2013 or around there and I read it online so I don’t remember the cover. I only remember the first few chapters as well. It starts with this girl on a campaign with other soldiers and she’s in charge of the them. They are scouting the enemy I think and they climbed a mountain. It’s winter and snowy so one of her people slip and is hanging there and she goes to save them even though she’ll get in trouble for it. When they get back to camp she gets taken to the commander and gets whipped for what she did and demoted and that’s how we find out she has a gold chain stuck on her body as a sign of her heritage I think. I believe her family was killed in front of her and that’s why she was taken to work in the military. After being demoted she walks back to her tent and a group of soldiers at a fire make fun of her and say rude things about the chain. She goes and lays in her tent and the commanders son who is in her group and her friend came to comfort her. The next day the commander decides to send her to get the head of the enemy prince and king and he said if she does that he’ll take the chain off of her and she’ll have her freedom. The chain has been on her since she was a kid and she had to grow with it so it hasn’t been opened, changed, or taken off before.

[Rachael]

Bump

[Rachael]

Bump

[Liz]

Snow Like Ashes?

[Rachael]

Sadly not it :(

[Rainbowheart]

Where did you read it online?

Are you positive that it was a published book?

[Rachael]

I read it on a free website that pops up when you google books sometimes. Pretty sure it was a published book and not from like wattpad or something.

[Rainbowheart]

The Finisher and Museum of Thieves involve girls and chains, but not sure how well they match your description.