by Stephen R. Donaldson

THE POWER THAT PRESERVES wraps up the first trilogy in the dark-toned classic epic fantasy series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. In the midst of an attempt to rescue a little girl from a rattlesnake, Thomas Covenant is once again summoned back to the magical place called the Land. Although mere days have passed for him, seven years have gone by in the Land, and the Land is even more seriously devastated by Lord Foul's evil. Although Covenant still doubts the reality of the Land, he has come to love it nonetheless, and he's tired of being a victim of circumstance, both in the