Because her family’s bloodline carries the ability to recognize killers, she adopts a solitary, violent existence in service of her own, personal mission in life.
But she also lives a secret life, right under everyone’s noses. And in the process, she became more.Īngela juggles multiple jobs to live a secluded life in a cabin in the mountains. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. The daughter of a meth addict, she is convinced she was born a freak. When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability, she was a rather ordinary girl.
This will take her and Nathan to visit the mysterious witch-woman Red, to tangle with the street life of the port city of Tanimura, to fight lethal battles on the high seas, and ultimately to a vast magical confrontation far from home…with the future of life itself, in the Old World and the New, at stake.Īngela Constantine is a girl born broken. But her real task will be to scout the far reaches of Richard Rahl’s realm. One of her jobs will be to keep her travelling companion, the unworldly prophet Nathan, out of trouble. Now, with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally stabilized, Nicci has set out on her own for new adventures. But it was Richard who converted Nicci instead, and for years thereafter she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends–and one of their most lethal defenders.
One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as ‘Death’s Mistress’ and the ‘Slave Queen’, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good.
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Death’s Mistress (The Nicci Chronicles #1)Ī New York Times bestseller, Death’s Mistress: Sister of Darkness begins The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind’s series with a cast of characters centred on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth.