Woman Who Rides Like a Man / Tamora Pierce 238 p.

Continues the series Song of the Lioness, the story of Alanna of Trebond, knight of Tortall. Alanna seeks adventure in the southern desert where she is accompanied by Faithful, her psychic cat and her man-of-arms, Coram. The Bazhir desert tribesmen capture her. By her wits and her sword, she turns the captors into friends. They call her "Woman Who Rides Like a Man". She trains two outcast girls to be shamans. Jonathon comes back into her life assuming she will become his queen. He works to become the Voice of the Bazhir. Who will she marry: Jonathan, the Prince, or George, the King of the Thieves. When she returns to Tortall, she observes strong magic happening, her twin, Tom uses her power. All report he is working to raise the dead. Alanna grows in her knighthood and in her womanhood. She continues to seek to do good with her powers.