Holdfast Chronicles

Motherlines

Plot

2nd in the Holdfast Chronicles after Walk to the End of the World (1974)
"Alldera had risked her life to escape Holdfast, where men ruled fems in a bestial society based on fear. She had followed a whisper: the legend of the free fems who lived without masters. Instead, she had found the Motherline tribes. The proud Riding Women who bred without men, the dark-laughing warriors who dared her to be free!" -- Publishers description.