The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness #3)

The third book in Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man begins just after Alanna goes through the Ordeal of Knighthood.

Alanna of Trebond heads south seeking adventure in the land of Tortall. She and Coram journey through the Great Southern Desert on their way to the coast. But it is forbidden by the Bazhir to travel through their desert without permission.

Will Alanna and Coram be able to talk their way out of the fix they have gotten into? What will the Bazhir tribe of the Bloody Hawk do with the trespassers?

In this volume of the quartet Alanna, after living in the palace for the last eight years, will find out what it means to have to make decisions on her own. Of course, she has never been one to sit back and let others decide for her. What will she choose? And perhaps more importantly, whom will she choose - George, the King of the Rogue, or Jonathan, Prince of Tortall?

Pierce, Tamora. (1986). The woman who rides like a man. New York: Simon Pulse.