The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)

New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson presents the first novel of the four-volume finale to the series thats become a modern fantasy classic: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Thomas Covenant lost everything. Abandoned by his wife and child, sick and alone, he was transported while unconscious to a magical, dreamlike world called the Land. Convinced it was all a delusion, Covenant was christened The Unbeliever by the Lands inhabitants--but gave his life to save this new-found world he came to regard as precious.

Ten years after Covenants death, Linden Avery still mourns for her beloved companion. But a violent confrontation with Covenants son, who is doing the evil Lord Fouls bidding, forces her into the Land, where a dark malevolence is about to unmake the laws of nature--and of life and death itself. It is here that she comes upon Esmer, son of the Dancers of the Sea, a creature of strange powers who draws Linden backwards through time to witness Thomas Covenants return to life, and to reinvent the mysterious, dangerous, and violent history of the Land.