A fresh Kahlan and Richard fantasy novel from bestselling author, Terry Goodkind.

A major accident leads towards the discovery of the mysterious machine that has rested concealed deep underground for countless millennia. The machine awakens to begin issuing a series of more and more alarming, if minor, omens. The omens grow to be astonishingly accurate, and ever more ominous.

As Zedd tries to figure out how exactly to destroy the sinister device, the machine problems a cataclysmic omen involving Richard and Kahlan, foretelling an impending event beyond anyone’s capability to stop. As catastrophe techniques, the machine after that reveals that it is within its power to withdraw the omen . In exchange for an difficult demand.