The Woman Who Rides Like a Man is the third installment of The Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce, YA high fantasy novels set in the Tortallan Universe—a secondary world that was created by Pierce with this quartet. The book is about Alanna of Trebond after she reveals herself as a girl to the Tortallan court, while she was dueling Roger of Conté. This book chronicles the beginning of her time as a knight errant, wandering around the realm and learning new things, and of her experiences with cultures unknown to her previously.