Amazon.com description: Product Description: In Winter’s Heart, the ninth volume in the best-selling Wheel of Time series, the prophesied Last Battle (Tarmon Gai’don) between the Light and the Shadow is imminent. But Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, stands in the Shadow’s way. Darkfriends, Shadowspawn, and the Forsaken will try to kill Rand to keep him from fighting. The forces of Light fear that Rand will go mad and cause another Breaking of the World. Male and female magic clash to dazzling effect in the colorful tapestry that the New Statesman and Society called Jordan’s “entirely convincing and compelling alternative world.”·Winter’s Heart debuted at number one on The New York Times bestseller list in November 2000. “The Wheel of Time ... is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.” — Chicago Sun-Times