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Richard Cyper rescues Kahlan, a mysterious confessor from the Midlands sent to give the Book of Counted Shadows to the one true seeker. Zed, an old man who lives nearby, tells Richard that he is this seeker and gives him the Sword of Truth.

General Demmin Nass brings Darken Rahl's new orders: the Seeker must not be killed, but captured and enslaved. Richard and Kahlan are totally distracted when she stops his attempt to kiss her passionately but refuses to explain why. Zedd can barely escape when Mord-Sith Denna attacks and imprisons Richard in a dungeon, to be subdued by protracted torture designed to make pleasing his dominatrix his sole purpose. Kahlan resigns her post and agrees to swap places with order sister Lara, but discovers she abused her powers to enslave the village she had to protect. Causing Kahlan to reconsider her plan. When Kahlan arrives, Richard is despairing whether he can keep resisting and pretending to be nearly tame.

Darken Rahl is planning to find the final Box of Orden, which is being held by Queen Milena of Tamarang. Zedd poses as a puppeteer for Princess Violet's birthday party. Meanwhile, Richard and Kahlan try to find a way to stop Darken Rahl's men from reaching Tamarang.

Richard's party suddenly meets the remaining members of Kahlan's order, who flee General Demmin Nass's troops to the coast to take refuge on a magically protected island to avoid extinction. To Kahlan's amazement it includes her presumed-dead sister Dennee, who very soon gives birth. Instead of the long-hoped new confessor, it's a boy, who by tradition must be ritually sacrificed out of fear he'll grow up as a mighty monster. Richard refuses to allow such cruelty and gets the confession-spellbound father Finn on his side, The order's mother resorts to confessing Zed to enforce execution, but Richard still puts up a formidable fight for innocent life.

While Zeddicus goes to visit home, Richard and Kahlan find out the killer of some members of the resistance, only to learn that somehow he lied to Kahlan when he confessed his crime. The real killer is still free.

At night, Richard's healthy sleeps changes into a deep trance. Zed soon realizes he's under a rare spell from a great magician, using a short celestial constellation to enable long distance mind control, which can end in death. Indeed, Darken Rahl has been enabled to appear to Richard in any form, notably his step-family, to make him recall his quest as they claim it never happened, in an effort to make Richard tell where the missing box of Orden is hidden. Zed fears rightly he won't be able to break the spell magically, but something else does just before Darken finds out details.

Richard, Kahlan and Zeddicus travel to an ancient Seeker's crypt to hide one of the Boxes of Orden, only to find that the past is not quite at rest there.

With Zeddicus again having parted ways with them, Richard and Kahlan encounter Chase. Together they infiltrate the now-under-Darken-Rahl's-rule Hartland, where Richard sees Anna. But a terrible secret lies in the city.

Richard's attempts to rescue his friends from a sadistic wizard's deadly experiments send him into his first explosive face-to-face confrontation with the evil Darken Rahl.

Darken Rahl gives Denna one last chance to bring him the final piece of the Box of Orden. She, fatefully, runs into Richard, Kahlan and Zeddicus. Then things get complicated and secrets long buried see daylight.

Richard and Kahlan return to a helpful village, only to find everyone dead. Objects a captured enemy calls Whisperers killed the people - and Darken Rahl has more of them in a keep. Richard decides to enter by impersonating the prisoner.

After a routine stop at an inn, both Richard and Kahlan start having alternating moments of uncharacteristic behavior. Can they find out the cause before Zeddicus returns or Darken Rahl's minions catch them?

King Gregor of Caddock requests the Seeker's help. Earlier, Gregor asked the witch Shota "power to defend the kingdom forever" to drive away the D'harans, but the power had a horrible downside that may stay forever as well.

A librarian is close to finding out where one of the copies of The Book of Counted Shadows is hidden. Rahl himself sets out to meet her. But Richard, Kahlen and Zedd are already there. However, something changes the situation completely.

Richard and Zedd get an idea of how Richard can control the power of Orden. But Darken Rahl has captured Jennsen and cursed her village. And she threw the Box of Orden to the bottom of a lake before being captured.

Rahl sends all his Mord'sith to kill Richard and they strike just as he assembles the Box of Orden. A magic explosion swallows Richard, Zedd is burned to a crisp and Kahlan taken prisoner for Rahl, who wants to make her his queen.

Richard accidentally opens a rift to the underworld which unleashes an awful evil.

Richard, Kahlan, Zeddicus are joined by the Mord'sith Cara on a trip to a death camp to find an abbot with the key to finding the stone needed to close the rift between the underworld and land of the living, and thus prevent the Keeper and Darken Rahl with the dead. While there they discover that the Keeper is recruiting banelings: the dead who he sends back if they agree to kill on his behalf.

When Cara reveals to the group that all the Confessors are dead, and that she personally killed Kahlan's sister Denee, Kahlan attempts to kill her. Under Richard's orders, Cara flees returning to her hometown. She is captured and held prisoner by the townspeople, and the Mother Confessor is forced to execute Cara.

Kahlan and Richard set out to rescue a mysterious girl who is the only other living Confessor, and try to prevent her from accidentally unleashing the power she possesses.

The witch Shota casts a spell on Zedd which makes him young and forget all his past. Zedd escapes and becomes king of a town which is then threatened to plunge into a rift to the underworld. Cara, Kahlan, and Richard try to find out where he went, and attempt to break the spell on him.

Using the magical compass to guide their way to the Stone of Tears, Richard, Kahlan, Cara and Zedd come across a camp of Minders. There they come across an ancient magical spell that is connected to Richard and when the Sword of Truth's magic overcomes Richard, Zedd must teach him how to control his rage.