** spoiler alert ** My summary:

Fifth book in the wheel of time fantasy series. Rand is still in Aiel Waste in the city of Rhuidin. He is trying to gather the clans together before he leaves the Waste. Coulidin has also proclaimed himself as He Who Comes With the Dawn so part of the Aiel follow him, and part of the clans are still deciding who to follow. Asmodean begins teaching Rand everything he knows about using the Power and the other Forsaken. Rand is attacked by Darkfriends while he is there and destroys them with balefire. They soon learn that Coulidin has taken his clan out of the Waste in order to attack Cairhien. Rand follows him all of the way there and engages him in battle. During the time it takes to travel the waste, Min and Siuan travel to the place where all of the Blue Aes Sedai are meeting. On the way, they accidentally burn down a barn and are indebted to Gareth Byrne. They break their oath's of obedience and escape and he follows them to the Aes Sedai hideout. There Siuan continues to plan on how to help Rand and get rid of Elaida as Amyrlin. The Aes Sedai enlist the help of Gareth Byrne to help them retake the White Tower. Elayne, Nynaeve, Thom, and Julius travel towards the meeting place of the Aes Sedai after their victory in Tanchico. Nynaeve continues to talk to Brigitte in the dream world and asks her to help her find Moghedian. Moghedian finds her first though and plans to enslave Nynaeve when Brigitte shoots her with an arrow. She sends Brigitte out of the dream world and Nynaeve escapes. Nynaeve remains scared of Moghedian for the rest of the journey to the Aes Sedai hiding place. On their way they travel with a menagerie in order to hide from Moghedian and the Black Aes Sedai who follow her. They reach the Aes Sedai and quickly are treated like Accepted and are made to teach the Aes Sedai how to walk the dream world. While teaching Siuan, Nynaeve sees Moghedian and fights her again. She is defeated but she is saved by Bridgitte again and manages to put a silver collar on Moghedian so she can command her. They then travel to Camelyn to help Rand fight Rahvin. Before this, Rand fights Couladin and uses the force with Egwene and Aviandra's help. Mat tries to run away but instead helps lead a force into battle and kills Couladin himself. Rand then prepares to go to Camelyn to kill Rahvin because he believes he killed Queen Morgase, Elayne's mother. Before leaving, Morraine takes him down to the docks where he faces Lanfear (because she finds out he was with Aviandra). He matches her strength but is unable to kill her because she is a woman so Morraine attacks her and they both fall into the Power-filled doorway and disappear (and supposedly die). Lan leaves to go be a warder for the Aes Sedai Morraine left him with. Rand takes an army of Aiel and goes to Camelyn. He is ambushed by Rahvin and his friends die, but then he fights Rahvin with balefire and with Nynaeve's help, defeats him. His friends are alive again and the book ends with Asmodean going into a room and being killed by someone unknown.