The White Tower in Tar Valon, under the Amyrlin Elaida, has decided that Rand must be controlled—gentled, if need be—immediately. And in Salidar, among the Aes Sedai in exile, Egwene al’Vere, although summoned to high office, faces the knowledge that her colleagues also wish to bind him. Drought and summer heat linger into winter and Nynaeve al’Meara and Elayne, the Daughter-Heir of Andor, begi...