Book description
When Wyl Thirsk, General of the Morgravian Legion, is forced to watch
the torture of Myrren, a young woman accused of witchcraft, it seems
little enough comfort to speed her passing. But Myrren is grateful for
even this small mercy and promises Wyl a gift. He thanks her but
dismisses the notion - what could this poor, doomed girl have to give him?
It is only years later that Wyl, shorn of his friends and allies,
betrayed by his king, and forced to make an impossible choice, remembers
the dying words of the young woman about to burn for the crime of
witchcraft. As his enemy's sword draws closer, Wyl finally understands
the meaning of Myrren's dying words, and he wonders: had he known what
that one act of kindness would bring, would he have behaved otherwise?
Gripping the reader from the very first page, Myrren's Gift marks Fiona
McIntosh as one of fantasy fiction's most gifted storytellers. Fiona
McIntosh was born in Brighton, and has lived in England, Ghana and
France. She currently resides in Adelaide, South Australia, with her
husband and two sons.
