I bought this book yesterday at the Johnsburg Library used book sale for a dollar.

c. 2000 -- 688 pages -- Hardcover

Inside Flap: A novel of the nobility of the human spirit. A novel of ideas. NY Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns with an extraordinary new novel of the majestic Sword of Truth. Richard, the Lord Rahl and the Seeker of Truth, has returned to his boyhood home, Hartland.

When a Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate sacrifice to ensure that his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken deep into the Old World and forced to labor for the tyrannical evil he's sworn to defeat, he is determined to remain defiant even in the heart of darkness.

Kahlan, left behind and unwilling to abandon the cause of the Midlands, violates prophecy and breaks her last pledge to Richard. Finally she will come face to face with the architect of the terror sweeping her land -- the mad dreamwalker, Emperor Jagang.

While Kahlan faces Jagang's vast horde, Richard discovers the truth of the Imperial Order's rule. Forced to endure his ordeal without magic, without the Sword of Truth, without his love, he stands against the despair and soul-numbing regime of the Old World, his hope kept alive only by the knowledge of the rightness of his cause.

I fnished reading this with my DH (MidnightSon) on 6/8. We are both enjoying this series. This book is intense, guesome and touchingly tender all in one. It's one of the better books in this series. Both good and bad news happens ... another wedding takes place ... but also a much loved wizard dies. I love the calming effect at the end of the book (after the heated battle) with Anne and Verna corresponding through the Journey book. Can anyone trust Nicci now to be a Sister of the Light after so many years of being the Death's Mistress (and Sister of the Dark).

Quotes: (page 400) "the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason."

Chapter 49 tries to explain the difference between wizards and sorcerers. I always thought they were same.

RELEASE NOTES:

I'm mailing this today to Audrey in OK ... through PaperBackSwap.com
Received 6/29 - Notified by PBS

I caught this book from my fave website, Paperback Swap. It is in great shape, except for the dust jacket is torn a little.