Ship of Destiny

Ship of Destiny is the third and last book in the Liveship Traders Trilogy. Much of Bingtown lies in ruins after the Satrap disappears, and its factions fight one another while Chalcedean invaders are held off. Ronica Vestrit works with Rache, a slave, to unite Old Traders, New Traders, Three Ships folk and the Tattooed ex-slaves into a new, independent order. In the Rain Wilds, the dragon Tintaglia saves Reyn and Selden, while Malta and the Satrap drift downriver. Wintrow learns the truth about liveships. The story explores unity, change and survival.

Why You Should Read?

• Follow Ronica Vestrit as she works to unite Bingtown's divided people and build a new order.
• Meet the dragon Tintaglia, who defeats Chalcedean warships and seeks to save her kind.
• Experience Malta's struggle to survive as she drifts down the Rain Wild River with the Satrap.
• Discover the truth Wintrow learns about liveships being made from the cocoons of dead dragons.

About the Author

Robin Hobb is a pen name of an American writer of speculative fiction. Her Elderlings fantasy includes the Tawny Man, Liveship Traders, and Farseer trilogies, the Rain Wild Chronicles, and a Fitz and the Fool trilogy. She wrote Wizard of the Pigeons and science fiction short stories. Born in California, she was raised in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. At thirty, she published her first novel while she worked as a waitress and brought up children. By 2018, her fiction had been translated into 22 languages and sold over 4 million copies.