Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent
fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of
readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of
epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful
Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of
Truth.
Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is
the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the
empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out,
Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people,
in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.