In the epic conclusion of the best-selling Sword of Truth series, the world is on the brink of descending into total chaos, confusion, and darkness, with evil threatening to overwhelm everything and the people on the verge of savagery, while Richard confronts his own guilt over the situation and struggles to deal with the loss of the one person he loves. 600,000 first printing.
Terry Goodkind is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books include the eleven-volume Sword of Truth series, beginning with Wizard's First Rule, the basis for the television show Legend of the Seeker. Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school. Alongside a career in wildlife art, he has also been a cabinetmaker and a violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world -- each with its own story to tell, he says. While continuing to maintain the northeastern home he built with his own hands, in recent years he and his wife Jeri have created a second home in the desert Southwest, where he now spends the majority of his time.