A conclusion to a four-book saga finds last Confessor Kahlan Amnell risking everything on a final desperate gambit with the potential to change the world forever. By the best-selling author of The Omen Machine. Simultaneous. Soulmates, pawns of prophecy and inheritors of an ancient conflict, Richard and Kahlans destinies have been bound together since their first encounter inWizards First Rule. But now Richard lies on a funeral bier - suspended between the worlds of life and death and Kahlan faces her greatest challenge. She must fight for Richards very existence, and Richard, trapped in the underworld, must fight to keep the world of life from ending. Desperate sacrifices are required. This is the final battle in a war three-millennia old, a war that saw the Sword of Truth forged, a war that could mean the end, not only of their lives, but of their world.