The Runes of the Earth

New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldsonpresentsthe first novel of the four-volume finale to the series thats become a modern fantasy classic: TheChronicles of Thomas Covenant.. Thomas Covenant lost everything. Abandoned by his wife and child sick and alone he was transported while unconscious to a magical dreamlike world called the Land. Convinced it was all a delusion Covenant was christened The Unbeliever by the Lands inhabitantsbut gave his life to save this new-found world he came to regard as precious.. Ten years after Covenants death Linden Avery still mourns for her beloved companion. But a violent confrontation with Covenants son who is doing the evil Lord Fouls bidding forces her into the Land where a dark malevolence is about to unmake the laws of natureand of life and death itself. It is here that she comes upon Esmer son of the Dancers of the Sea a creature of strange powers who draws Linden backwards through time to witness Thomas Covenants return to life and to reinvent the mysterious dangerous and violent history of the Land.