Terry Goodkind Books in Order

Collecting the five Children of D’Hara novellas, this volume follows Richard and Kahlan after the Sword of Truth saga as they confront the Golden Goddess, a deadly warlock, and a tear between life and death that could erase everything they fought to protect.

Deep beneath the flooded passages of the People’s Palace, Richard, Kahlan, the witch woman Shale, and six Mord-Sith hunt a warlock on the run. Bound together by a perilous witch’s oath, they discover that stopping this enemy may demand a price none of them are ready to pay.

As the Golden Goddess devours worlds and fractures spread between life and death, Richard Rahl must carry the fight into the very heart of the darkness threatening D’Hara. To save Kahlan, their children, and their realm, he steps willingly into a realm no living man should enter.

In the aftermath of war, a new onslaught rises from the frozen seas, threatening cities across the Old World. Cut off by treachery and pursued by overwhelming forces, Nicci races to stop a final cataclysm that could sweep away D’Hara and everything she has come to defend.

When Mord-Sith bodyguard Vika is abducted from within the supposedly secure People’s Palace, Richard realizes a deadly power has infiltrated its deepest halls. To save her and protect their family, he and Kahlan venture into the palace’s labyrinthine Wasteland, where every turn could be a lethal trap.

Raging River, priestess of the peaceful Sun People, breaks her tribe’s most sacred law when she kills a raider to save her sister. Hunted by the vengeful Wolf People and facing her clan’s annihilation, she sets out to find the mythical Sky People and a way to save her own.

Just after defeating their greatest enemy, Richard and Kahlan work to secure a hard-won peace when their young son begins speaking of a nightmare figure he calls the Scribbly Man. As eerie omens spread, a new, otherworldly foe demands Richard’s surrender of not only D’Hara, but the entire world.

A murderous Golden Goddess has fixed her sights on the unborn children of Richard and Kahlan, knowing only they can threaten her designs. As hidden servants gather in the shadows of the People’s Palace, the rulers of D’Hara must uncover an invisible enemy before it strikes.

While hiking through snowy woods near her isolated mountain cabin, Angela Constantine finds a wolf feeding on a murdered woman. Tracking the killer entangles her with a strange evangelist and his silent sister, forcing Angela to decide how far she will go to enforce her own idea of justice.

Angela Constantine grew up abused and convinced she was born wrong, until she learned her family carries a grim gift: the ability to spot killers at a glance. Living off the grid, she quietly hunts predators, until a terror cell targets her and she becomes their most dangerous enemy.

As a reawakened stone army and the brutal Norukai fleet converge on Ildakar, Nicci and her companions struggle to hold a city that may not deserve saving. Every choice about power, loyalty, and freedom could doom countless lives far beyond Ildakar’s walls.

Following cryptic signs, Nicci, Nathan, and young Bannon reach the petrified army of a long-ago war and the hidden city of Ildakar. Inside its failing magical shroud, decadent sorcerers rule over the ungifted, and Nicci must decide whether to uphold an alliance with a city built on cruelty.

Angela Constantine’s impulsive coworker Wanda keeps stirring up trouble at their rundown bar. When Angela senses that someone hovering around Wanda is on the verge of becoming a serial killer, she follows a trail into a small-town underbelly where vengeance and survival collide.

Former Sister of the Dark Nicci sets out with the ancient prophet Nathan Rahl to spread Richard’s message of freedom to neglected corners of the empire. Guided by a troubling prophecy, they cross dangerous seas and the Phantom Coast, battling slavers and twisted magic that threaten both Old and New Worlds.

In Chicago, graphic designer Kate Bishop is drawn into a brutal murder investigation and discovers she has a terrifying gift: she can recognize killers just by looking into their eyes. With enigmatic author Jack Raines, she confronts a hidden network of predators who will do anything to stay invisible.

The last Richard and Kahlan novel opens with Richard lying on his own funeral bier and the D’Haran Empire on the brink of annihilation. Following an inner prompting no one else understands, Kahlan wagers everything on a desperate gamble that could either save their world or end it for good.

Marked by a stain of death that is slowly killing them, Richard and Kahlan race to find a cure even as undead hordes and fanatics push toward the heart of D’Hara. Their search forces them into impossible choices about what they are willing to sacrifice to save their people.

Poisoned by the essence of death and stripped of much of his magic, Richard finds himself and Kahlan stranded in the haunted Dark Lands. Surrounded by cannibals, restless dead, and strange allies, he must uncover a growing conspiracy that reaches back toward the heart of D’Hara.

Centuries before Richard and Kahlan, Magda Searus loses her husband, the First Wizard, to a shocking suicide. Refusing to accept the official story, she uncovers a conspiracy, confronts a rising enemy from the Old World, and forges a bond with a wizard that will create the first Confessor.

Soon after a strange boy delivers a chilling warning, common people begin speaking in perfect prophecies and a buried metal contraption awakens beneath the palace. As its omens grow ever darker and more precise, Richard and Kahlan must learn who built the omen machine and how to confront it.

Struggling artist Alex Rahl inherits a mysterious tract of land and a legacy he does not understand. When a woman named Jax appears claiming to be from another world, Alex is pulled into a deadly conspiracy that links his life to a distant, war-torn realm of magic.

The final volume of the Chainfire trilogy brings Richard and Kahlan’s long struggle to a climax. With the Boxes of Orden in play, the Imperial Order at the gates, and Kahlan still bound by forgotten magic, Richard must stake everything on one last, perilous use of ancient power.

Continuing the Chainfire story, Richard scours a war-torn world for Kahlan while the Imperial Order closes in on D’Hara. As corrupted magic spreads and prophecies twist out of shape, he must unravel how the spell that erased Kahlan is tied to a far greater catastrophe.

After nearly dying from a battlefield wound, Richard wakes to find Kahlan gone and everyone insisting she never existed. Hunted by a magical beast and doubted by his closest allies, he follows fragile clues that suggest a forbidden spell has rewritten memory and history itself.

On the journey home, Richard is poisoned by a desperate stranger from the hidden empire of Bandakar, whose pacifist people are being crushed by the Imperial Order. To earn the antidote, he must convince an entire nation that refusing to fight can be the most deadly choice of all.

Jennsen Rahl has spent her life running from assassins sent by the mysterious Lord Rahl, never knowing why. Immune to magic and guided by a charming stranger with his own agenda, she is drawn toward a confrontation that could upend the war between freedom and tyranny.

Nicci, a powerful Sister of the Dark, kidnaps Richard and drags him into the heart of the Imperial Order’s capital, binding Kahlan’s life to his obedience. While Kahlan leads embattled armies elsewhere, Richard quietly challenges an entire culture’s beliefs using work, art, and stubborn hope.

On their long-awaited wedding night, Richard and Kahlan accidentally unleash the chimes, a force that is draining magic from the world. Drawn into the politics of Anderith and its devastating weapon, they must outwit both local leaders and the Imperial Order to avert disaster.

A Sister of the Dark breaches the legendary Temple of the Winds and unleashes a magical plague that races across the Midlands. Bound by cruel prophecy, Richard and Kahlan face heartbreaking choices as they hunt for a way into the temple and a cure before their world dies.

During the war against D’Hara, a desperate young woman confronts First Wizard Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander to demand payment of an old debt and the rescue of her child. Her plea forces Zedd into a fateful choice that will reshape the borders and magic of the entire New World.

Now Lord Rahl, Richard moves to unite the free lands under D’Haran rule before the fanatical Blood of the Fold and the invading Imperial Order can cleanse the world of magic. As betrayal and zealotry rise, he and Kahlan fight separate battles that will decide everyone’s future.

In the wake of Darken Rahl’s defeat, Richard’s awakening magic is killing him and a tear between the worlds has unleashed forces from the underworld. Torn from Kahlan, he must submit to the Sisters of the Light for training while war spreads across the Midlands.

After his father is murdered, forest guide Richard Cypher rescues a mysterious woman and is named the Seeker of Truth. Armed with a deadly sword and guided by a reclusive wizard, he must stop tyrant Darken Rahl from seizing an ancient world-shaping power.