[2] The book, though at essence a thriller, contains numerous fantasy or science fiction elements and balances references to numerology and magic with ones to probability- and string theory.

The story revolves around the character of Alexander Rahl, an artist, whose life becomes increasingly complicated when he meets a woman named Jax who claims to have come from the other world.

Alex is en route to the local art gallery that carries his work when he meets a young woman named Jax.

The inheritance is a huge swath of land in the far east part of the country in a heavily wooded and mountainous nature preserve.

As events unfold that open Alex's mind to all the implications Jax's story has, if true, he becomes mixed up in a battle between worlds and a massive conspiracy that he must unravel in order to save not only his own life.

When in 2007, Terry Goodkind finished his Sword of Truth series with Confessor he announced his next work The Law of Nine as "a whole new kind of high-octane thriller"[4] and a parting from the fantasy genre.

[3] Lindsey Losnedahl of the Las Vegas Review-Journal claimed that the book is more a sequel to the Sword of Truth series than a completely new direction.