The Law of Nines

The Law of Nines
Terry Goodkind

The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a stunningly original , high-octane thriller.They watch you through mirrors…‘Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you’re twenty-seven, and it’s come to you.’The skin of Alex’s arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother…Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the mid-western United States, it’s cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him – and everyone he loves – into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence…Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom?In Alex, Terry Goodkind, the New York Times #1 bestselling author, brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of stunningly original, high-octane, page-turning thriller.

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To Jeri, the love of my life, who is always there for me. She gives me her strength when I’m weak and her special smile when I’m strong. No one knows as well as she everything that has brought me to this place, this book, this new road. I could never be who I am, or accomplish all that I do, without her at my side every step of the way. She completes me. This one is for her.

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#uf5ca2e62-e807-56cb-8f3e-0385d180dd5c)

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Dedication (#u96996f0a-46b6-5d76-b406-1ce8e017474b)

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