As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicate that Tarmon Gai'don the Last Battle is imminent
- & Rand al' Thor must ready himself to confront the Dark One. But Rand must first negotiate a truce with the Seanchan armies as their forces increasingly sap his strength. Perrin has made his own desperate truce with the Seanchan
- he would deal with the Dark One himself to save his wife Faile from the Shaido. Meanwhile Mat is caught up in a reckless escape from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons. But Tuon is in fact in deadly danger from her Seanchan countrymen. Mat will have to risk much to prevail & still win her as his bride. All is in flux as established powers falter.. . In Caemlyn Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne while trying to avert civil war & Egwene finds that even the White Tower is no longer a place of safety. The winds of time have whirled into a storm & Rand & his companions ride in the vortex. This small company must prevail against the trials of fate & fortune
- or the Dark One will triumph & the world will be lost.