
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 & 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 & allies betrayed by his king & forced to make an impossible choice remembers the dying words of the young woman about to burn for the crime of witchcraft. As his enemys sword draws closer Wyl finally understands the meaning of Myrrens dying words & 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 Myrrens Gift marks Fiona Mc Intosh as one of fantasy fictions most gifted storytellers.