I'm looking to identify a story about a young woman who needs to go to a Big Baddie's castle to retrieve something, a book, I think.  Along the way she meets a young man who at first she doesn't get along with, but who ends up being a love interest.  She also discovers how to use magic, which she uses by traveling down a "web" in her mind. At the end of the book, her fight with the Big Baddie leaves her "web" burned out.  Some more details, I believe the book has a scene where the Main Character takes care of her leather boots and bag by oiling them.  I think when she and the young man arrive at the Big Baddie's place, the Baddie is manipulative and actually has them stay there for a bit (maybe under the pretense of teaching the young woman magic?). The young man is more suspicious of the Baddie than the young woman.  It's a pretty grounded story. There's not much more to it than the woman going on her quest to the tower, arriving, beating the Baddie and getting the object she was questing for. It did end in a way that made me think there'd be sequels.  I read this in the early 00's but I'm guessing it was published in the 90's.  I know that's not a ton of info to go off of, and I may have mixed some details from another story, but I appreciate your help. It's a book I think my wife would really enjoy.
I read it as a paperback around 2009ish. There are at least two books in the series. In the first book, we learn that the protagonist lives up in the mountains. Her people are distrusted by the people in the plains, and I think have either dark or olive skin. She leaves home to learn magic, something I think is rare in the world she lives in. When she arrives, there's a crazy power-hungry man at her destination and she has to hide who she is because otherwise he'd have her killed to prevent her from surpassing him. At some point, she winds up in a set of chambers set into the mountain where she finds a pool of water and carvings about dragons. Somehow, this leads into her learning to become a dragon, I think perhaps after meeting one. I want to say that the sequel got into her having dreams that turn out to be partly prophetic and partly communication.  One of the reasons the book sticks out in my memory is that, despite the mentions of the protagonists dusky skin, the cover depicts a fair-skinned blonde girl, I think holding a glowing globe of light.
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