The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1)

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her... So begins one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age—Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company. When a prophecy says the White Rose has been reborn to bring good and peace to the world, the Black Company sets out to find her before she can be destroyed by the evil Lady There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says.