
Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself.if she is even still alive. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. Book 9: Chainfire With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. 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. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. 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. Book 8: Naked Empire Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Find out why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend. Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation. Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned.
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Meanwhile, Lauren finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge.

Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony.
