On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnellbecame the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the daythat the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searchesfor his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soondiscover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrumentthat will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were tounlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finallypossess her, body and soul. If she is to survive in a murky world ofdeception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlanmust find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn worldswirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she couldever have imagined.