Hardly recovered, the Horn Valire is lost again. The men of Darkness who attacked Fal Dara take it with them south. In pursuit, a group of shainar riders sets off, joined by Rand, Mat, and Perrin.
Nynaeve and Egwene, meanwhile, must travel to the White Tower and study with Aes Sedai—but it’s not yet known whose path is more dangerous. Meanwhile, everything points to the fact that the world’s biggest upheavals are still ahead. For the first time in twenty years, the Aiel are seen outside the borders of their desert, and on the west of the continent mysterious foreigners land—rumored to be descendants of the warriors of Arthur Hawkwing.