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Published Jul 2006
592 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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On the day that she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day when the world began to end.
As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.
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Terry Goodkind was born in 1948 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. His
dyslexia caused him constant frustration in high school and he later dropped out
of college
His first novel, Wizard’s
First Rule (Tor Books, 1994) was sold at auction for six times more than
any other first fantasy novel. With a substantial first print run of
60,000 copies it went on to be a bestseller. Each subsequent book in the Sword of Truth
series has sold better than the one before and some twenty million copies of
books in the series have now been sold.
The saga of the Sword of Truth started growing in Goodkind’s mind during the
early 1990s while he was building his house in the forests of the
northeastern U.S. Before turning his hand to writing he was known for ...
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