Ratha’s Courage is a novel by Clare Bell

Clare Bell

Clare Bell is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books, also called the Named series, are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma, cheetah and lion characteristics, and are based on fossil creatures...

. It was published in 2008 by Imaginator Press.

This novel is the final one in the Ratha series, also re-titled as The Book of the Named.

Plot summary

Ratha and her clan, the Named, are sentient prehistoric big cats. In Ratha's Courage, the fifth book in the Named series, Ratha extends the use of the Red Tongue fire to a hunter tribe. One of the hunters ignites a blaze that sets off a devastating conflict between the two clans.