Stone of Tears

Having defeated the tyrant Darken Rahl, Richard Cypher should have some peace, instead he's wracked by headaches from magical power newly awakened in him, headaches that three Sisters of the Light warn will kill him unless he trains at the Palace of the Prophets. Their price is a magic-suppressing collar, offered under a hard rule: refuse their help three times, and they walk away for good. Richard refuses twice, with fatal consequences, before Kahlan convinces him the collar is worth it. He sets off for the Old World and a training that will change him as much as it protects him. The second novel of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth.