Pillars of creation. Terry Goodkind. 2002.

Ever since she was six, someone has been trying to kill Jennsen. Now she is twenty. He just found her.

Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin.

Richard Rahul and his wife, Kahlan, have been reunited after their long separation, but with winter descending and the paralysing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, they must venture no deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.

Exploited by those intent on domination, Jennsen finds herself drawn into the centre of a violent struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by dark forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realise that the voices were real.