With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, TerryGoodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of hisstorytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan,the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epicstory to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richardawakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers thewoman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that shereally exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he mustfind the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even stillalive. If she was ever even real.