Despite the subtitle, Tehanu is not the last book in the Earthsea Cycle series. Tehanu was published nearly 20 years after the Earthsea "trilogy" (1968-1972). A collection of stories and essays (Tales from Earthsea, Book 5) and a fifth novel (The Other Wind, Book 6) were published about ten years after Tehanu.
Jacket illustration by Margaret Chodos-Irvine.
When Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who carries an unknown destiny.