From America's premier fantasy writer---#1 New York Times
and USA Today bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight-
-comes New Spring: The NovelFor three days battle has
raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In
the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the
slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms
over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the
world. That child must be found before the forces of the
Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred,
a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan
Mandragoran, a soldier fighting in the battle, are set on
paths that will bind their lives together. But those paths
are filled with complications and dangers, for Moiraine,
of the Royal House of Cairhien, whose king has just died,
and Lan, considered the uncrowned king of a nation long
dead, find their lives threatened by the plots of those
seeking power. "New Spring," the novella first published
in Legends, related some of these events, in compressed
form; New Spring: The Novel tells the whole story.