Rowan Hood returns by Nancy Springer one of my favorite writers. guy long heart Jasper of the sinister hand. Hurst or her son Holt also Orson brother of hurts. to anyone else just four names. but to Roman Hood the gentle healer who has survived too long years as outlaw in Sherwood Forest they are the names of the so-called knights who murdered her mother. they are names fit to fuel hatred set her a flame with a desire for revenge. and so she leaves the road and Grove that had to come her home. along with a friends who form her outlaw band she says off to hunt down these men. yet the growing going is difficult the forest has turned on rowan. no longer does she possess the powers to sense a Sweet water spring or to communicate with the spirits of the trees. perhaps worst of all no longer can she sense the presence of her father Robin Hood the closer she draws to the men who killed her mother the farther she drifts from the healer she had become. Nancy Springer has written a dramatic steering final chapter to the series that had only grown stronger with each new tail..