Over three thousand years ago, when the last of the wizards were faced with defeat at the hands of the agents of the Dark, they locked their most precious artifacts away, deep inside the Temple of the Winds, for safekeeping. The Temple exists on a different plane of reality to either the New World, of the Dark Realm, but as a terrifying plague is unleashed on the land, Richard and Kahlan have no choice but to find the Temple - and the cure it contains - or risk bringing down a terrible prophecy on their lands and people. But the Temple of the Winds was never meant to be found, it's designed to protect itself, and in his search for it, and within it, Richard may have to betray all he holds dear... Richard and Kahlan face their most difficult challenges yet as the struggle to find a way to combat the plague that is killing their people, race the minions of Darkness to the temple, and struggle with the discovery that Richard has a brother...