TERRY GOODKIND

When a mysterious woman, hunted by assassins, appears in Richard Cypher’s forest sanctuary, it starts a cascade of events he could never have imagined. From the first moment, he knows he must help her despite the as monumental forces conspiring to come between them.

On the red moon will come the firestorm...

Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.

Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin.

If Kahlan is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.

A discovery of a machine that has rested hidden for countless millennia, awakens and issues a series of increasingly alarming omens. The omens turn out to be astonishingly accurate. As Zedd tries to figure out how to destroy the sinister device, the machine issues a cataclysmic omen, foretelling an impending event beyond anyone's ability to stop.

Soul mates, pawns of prophecy and inheritors of an ancient conflict, Richard and Kahlan's destinies have been bound together since their first encounter in Wizard's First Rule. But now Richard lies on a funeral bier - suspended between the worlds of life and death.

Kahlan has at last gained the one thing she had always thought was beyond her grasp — love. But amidst the treachery of war and ancient oaths, she must cast Richard into slavery if she is to save his life. It is a betrayal she knows will break his heart, and hers.

Separated from the Sword of Truth and stripped of their magic, Richard and Kahlan must journey across the Midlands to discover a dark secret from the past and a trap that could tear them apart forever. For their fate has become inextricably entwined with that of the Midlands--and there's no place so dangerous as a world without magic...

"'You knew they were there, didn't you?' Kahlan asked in a hushed tone as she leaned closer. Against the darkening sky, she could just make out the shapes of three black-tipped races taking to wing, beginning their nightly hunt. That was why Richard had stopped...

Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves...and has lost.

"Richard saw the point of a sword blade sticking out from between the man's shoulder blades. He spun back toward Richard after throwing the woman out of the opening, ready to attack. It seemed impossible, but the man looked unaffected by the blade that had impaled him through the chest.

Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about the cost the life of Abby’s child, neither can escape the price of an ancient debt.

For 3000 years, the Old World had been sealed off from the new, that is until the war wizard, Richard Cypher, unwittingly destroys the magical wards. A gate between worlds is opened and the evil Keeper, Emperor Jagang, surges forth, leading a horde into the lands.

With Richard a captive taken to the Old World, only Kahlan can lead the army of the New World in a desperate fight to stop Emperor Jagang and his Imperial Order as they march north. She knows that if not stopped, the entire world will fall under the boot of tyranny.

"How much of this blood is his?" 

"Most of it, I'm afraid," a second woman said as they both rushed along beside Richard.

In a time before legends had yet been born.... Married to the powerful leader of her people, safe among those gifted with great ability, Magda Searus is protected from a distant world descending into war. But when her husband, a man who loved life and loved her, unexpectedly commits suicide, she suddenly finds herself alone.

From the far reaches of the D'Haran Empire, Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a vast horde of Shun-Tuk and other depraved "half-people" into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the world of the living.