Ship of Destiny

Bingtown lies half ruined and battling a Chalcedean invasion when matriarch Ronica Vestrit decides survival means abandoning old hierarchies, uniting Old Traders, New Traders and the long-oppressed Tattooed freedmen into something new. Out in the Rain Wilds, a newly freed dragon begins pulling other threads of the story into motion, while young Malta finds herself adrift with the deposed Satrap after a rescue that raises more questions than it answers. At sea, Althea and Brashen chase the unstable liveship Paragon in pursuit of the captured Vivacia, as the pirate Kennit's power keeps growing through bargains no one sees the cost of. The concluding volume of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders trilogy.