Events that began in Jarka Ruus, Book One of High Druid of Shannara, come swiftly to a head in this second thrilling volume. Alliances are made, trusts are betrayed, and prices are paid. Through it all, Terry Brooks orchestrates the action with the flawless hand of a master mythmaker fashioning another exquisite link in his chain of bestselling epics.Loyal to none but herself and lethal even to those closest to her, Shadea aRu now holds sway as High Druid of Paranorher ascension to power all but unchallenged in the wake of Grianne Ohmsfords sudden, mysterious vanishing. Only Shadea and her catspawthe treacherous Prime Minister Sen Dunsidanknow the secret fate of the true Ard Rhys . . . for it was they who engineered it, by means of dark magic. And now Grianne languishes in the fearsome and inescapable netherworld called the Forbidding.
