The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth
returns readers to the Land-and opens with the reunion of
Linden Avery and Thomas Covenant!
Linden Avery, who loved
Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the
Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As Fatal
Revenant begins, Linden watches from the battlements of
Revelstone when the impossible happens-riding ahead of the
hordes attacking Revelstone are Jeremiah and Covenant
himself, apparently very much alive.
Here in the Land,
Jeremiah is healed of the mental condition that had kept him
mute and unresponsive for so many years. He is full of life,
and devoted to Covenant. But Covenant is strangely changed.
Sarcastic and bragging, he no longer seems like the man whom
Linden adored. And yet he says he has a plan: he will take
her and Jeremiah to a place where they can find a pure
source of Earthpower and, after he has achieved his own
purposes, Linden will be free to use that great power to go
home, to take Jeremiah home, or to do anything else she sees
fit. Even though she distrusts the seemingly different man
he has now become, how can she make any choice except to
follow him?
Their journey will cover unimaginable
distances through the Land-even through time itself-and will
test Linden's courage again and again. In the end,
fulfilling her destiny will call for a terrible leap of
faith: Can she give up everything she thought had been
restored to her, for the sake of the Land?
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