Terry Goodkind
The Omen Machine
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Chapter 1
There is darkness,” the boy said.
Chapter 2
A penny for your future, sir?”
Chapter 3
Following Rikka deep into the private, warmly paneled corridors of…
Chapter 4
Kharga Trace?” Benjamin asked.
Chapter 5
Kahlan watched Zedd pace across the gold and blue carpet…
Chapter 6
Well,” Zedd finally said into the hush, “at least you…
Chapter 7
As he made his way into the grand hall, Richard…
Chapter 8
Not long after Richard had sent the captain to collect…
Chapter 9
Richard stepped back to the waiting group of officials, mayors,…
Chapter 10
Time itself seemed to stop.
Chapter 11
How is she?” Zedd asked when Richard closed the door…
Chapter 12
Richard and Zedd followed Nathan into a narrow hallway lit…
Chapter 13
Kahlan sat up with a start.
Chapter 14
Richard stood when the door opened. Out of the corner…
Chapter 15
Out in the corridor, as Ludwig was leaving, Richard spotted…
Chapter 16
How’s your hand?” Richard asked.
Chapter 17
Kahlan woke to the distinctive sound of Richard’s sword coming…
Chapter 18
It was a long journey down to the dungeons, but…
Chapter 19
Richard held his tongue. He wasn’t in the mood to…
Chapter 20
Kahlan ingratiated herself with the representatives by first laying out…
Chapter 21
Everyone inched forward, eager to finally hear what none of…
Chapter 22
The room had fallen dead silent. No one dared blink.
Chapter 23
Richard closed the double doors behind him as he stepped…
Chapter 24
Richard was lost in kissing the soft, sensual curve of…
Chapter 25
Out of the corner of her eye Kahlan saw the…
Chapter 26
High up in the People’s Palace, Richard and Kahlan, with…
Chapter 27
As they ducked, trying to avoid being hit by the…
Chapter 28
Richard held the glowing sphere out ahead of him as…
Chapter 29
Kahlan looked from Richard’s troubled face to the glowing symbol…
Chapter 30
Outside of the Garden of Life hundreds of heavily armed…
Chapter 31
Kahlan’s throbbing hand lay in her lap as she sat…
Chapter 32
Zedd peered again at the metal strip when Nathan handed…
Chapter 33
Looking more concerned than either Zedd or Nathan, Nicci didn’t…
Chapter 34
Zedd waved a hand, insisting on being the first one…
Chapter 35
Richard turned his attention to Benjamin, standing back out of…
Chapter 36
Hannis Arc, working on the tapestry of lines linking constellations…
Chapter 37
Mohler did not look up to meet the steady gaze…
Chapter 38
Richard yawned. He looked up from the complexities of translating…
Chapter 39
As he ran down the service hallway, Richard could smell…
Chapter 40
As Richard passed between phalanxes of guards and through the…
Chapter 41
Richard couldn’t begin to imagine what it could all mean—…
Chapter 42
The door carefully opened a crack in response to his…
Chapter 43
Orneta straightened a little, pushing back with a hand braced…
Chapter 44
Kahlan woke with a start when she heard the howls.
Chapter 45
Kahlan followed close on Richard’s heels as they ran past…
Chapter 46
Kahlan tried to follow Richard into the room, but Cara,…
Chapter 47
His sword still gripped tightly in his hand, Richard circled…
Chapter 48
Richard stood alone, hands clasped behind his back, staring at…
Chapter 49
Henrik lifted his head from gulping water out of the…
Chapter 50
After a frightening race along the trail as it tunneled…
Chapter 51
As Henrik made his way along the causeway made of…
Chapter 52
Jit sat cross-legged in the middle of the room, nested…
Chapter 53
The man glanced down at the warm, wet place growing…
Chapter 54
Henrik feared to take a step toward the Hedge Maid.
Chapter 55
As the Hedge Maid started out toward a shadowy opening…
Chapter 56
Henrik thought that the winds must have stilled to make…
Chapter 57
Kahlan woke with a start, panting in terror. A blur…
Chapter 58
Still drifting back from that distant place that felt completely…
Chapter 59
What’s this about me and my gift?” Nathan asked as…
Chapter 60
With his foot, Richard flipped over the carpet. He didn’t…
Chapter 61
The situation calls for a choice, and I’ve made it,”…
Chapter 62
The group with Queen Orneta fell silent as the Mord-Sith…
Chapter 63
Before the woman could prod her with the weapon, Orneta…
Chapter 64
Ludwig was pouring himself a last glass of wine when…
Chapter 65
Richard was shocked and angry.
Chapter 66
Kahlan woke to the feel of warm breath on her…
Chapter 67
Kahlan slowly pulled in a deep breath, preparing herself.
Chapter 68
It was deep in the middle of the night by…
Chapter 69
When the violence of the wizard’s fire at last subsided,…
Chapter 70
Well isn’t that something,” Zedd said as he stepped out…
Chapter 71
Nicci stepped up beside Richard. “Darkness has found it?”
Chapter 72
When Richard had finished filling the bin with metal strips,…
Chapter 73
Kahlan woke, confused at feeling herself rocking. She winced as…
Chapter 74
Anything at all?” Richard asked Berdine in a quiet voice.
Chapter 75
In the distance, paths meandered through elaborate gardens, but the…
Chapter 76
Patrols that had spotted Richard ran up to see what…
Chapter 77
Kahlan woke with a start. She squinted out at the…
