table of contents 1 the sword of truth 2 the cave of the goddess 3 the rat and the rose 4 the valley of the perfect woman 5 rosas ruin 6 the book of the quintessence 7 the road to avalon 8 the sisters of renunciation 9 the icon-makers 10 the anklebiter 11 the thorn convent 12 the wrath of ainenia 13 the faerie child 14 the vow 15 the shattered sword epilogue 1 the sword of truth some time after the fall of rome , but well before the age of steam , in a small village in a lost land to the west of belerion , that is , present-day cornwall , lived a strange , restless young man and his good wife rosa .