Dragon Blade

Over a year has passed since the defeat of the Great Foulness, and the
ravaged earth has begun to heal. Lost for generations, the signet rings
of the Four Great Houses-Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan-have been
restored to their rightful heirs. And Ashen NordornQueen, mistress of
the Land of Ever Snow, looks forward to a life of peace and happiness
with her beloved husband and their newborn son-only to learn that an
ancient evil still threatens all that she holds dear.The Mother
Ice Dragon, the fearsome progenitor of her deadly breed, has awakened
from slumber to menace the world anew. Legend holds that only the
Dragon Blade, forged from the scales of her vanquished mate, can slay
the deadly female dragon, but the Dragon Blade has been lost for ages.As
Ashen embarks on a perilous quest to find the mystic sword, she leaves
her castle and homeland in the care of her closest friends, including
Rannore, Lady of the Rowan, who soon faces danger of a different
sort...Dragon Blade continues the saga begun in To the King a Daughter and continued in Knight or Knave and A Crown Disowned.