This epic fantasy is the ninth installment in the Sword of Truth saga, and the first volume of a trilogy intended to wrap up the larger series. During a battle, Lord Richard Rahl is critically wounded by a crossbow bolt. After days of magical healing, Richard finally wakes up, asking for his wife, Mother Confessor Kahlan. However, no one even remembers that Richard ever had a wife and everyone is convinced that Richard dreamed her up during his difficult recovery. While Richard's friends attempt to cure him of his apparent delusion, Richard searches for proof of Kahlan's existence and the conspirators who have robbed the world of her memory--because remembering Kahlan may be not only the key to Richard's happiness, but the key to the structure of reality itself.
- Genre: Science Fiction + Fantasy, Romance, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Legal + Courtroom + Crime, Human Qualities + Behavior, Saga + Myth + Legend, Conflicts + Dualities, Sword + Sorcery, Science Fiction + Fantasy, War + Military
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: July 19, 2011
- Date Published: July 19, 2011
- Author: Terry Goodkind
- Narrator: Jim Bond (Narrator)