In denying his heritage, Richard Cypheer, grandson of the last true Wizard, ignores the wizard´s second rule. It may be his undoing and the Lands´. One person- Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor- holds the power to make Richard accept what he hayes. To save her peopple, her world, and Richard, from the Keeper of the Underworld she must sacrifice everithing she holds dear and begin a war she knows can only end in death.