Debt of Bones is a novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

 by Terry Goodkind

Terry Goodkind

Terry Goodkind is an American writer and author of the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines, which has ties to his fantasy series, and The Omen Machine, which is a direct sequel thereof. Before his success as an author Goodkind worked...

. It was first published in the 1998 anthology Legends

Legends (book)

Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy is a collection of 11 novellas by a number of noteworthy fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds...

then later published as a stand alone book in hardcover in 2001 and in paperback in 2004.

Plot summary

During the war against D'Hara, a young woman meets with Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Wizard of the First Order in order to force him to pay a debt of bones he owes her and save her child. In so doing, she initiates the series of events leading up to the end of the war with D'Hara and the division of the Westlands, Midlands, and D'Hara by the boundaries.

Characters in "Debt of Bones"

• Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
• Panis Rahl
• Abby
• Philip
• Jana
• Mariska
• Delora
• Anargo

External links

• Official Terry Goodkind website
• Welcome to the Sword of Truth Wiki, including characters, places, items, etc.