Lioness Rampant - bk. 4 (1st Simon Pulse ed.)

From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A.

Edwards Award.Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next.

She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures are already legendary.

Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needsbut Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when she is challenged with the impossible.

She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for goodbut only in the right hands. And she must work fast. Tortall is in great danger, and Alanna's arch-enemy, Duke Roger, is backand more powerful than ever.

In this final book of the Song of the Lioness quartet, Alanna discovers through fierce combat and ceaseless searching that she indeed has a future worthy of her mythic pastboth as a warrior and as a woman.