Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This collection of Edghill's finest short fantasy works includes: "The Piper at the Gate" where Mary Frances Baynes longs all her life for Real Magic and finally achieves it . . . at a price; "The Intersection of Anastasia Yeoman and Light" where a midlist SF-writer-turned-successful-editor gets a glimpse of the way her life could have gone; and the story of Ator, Jannifer, Ancel, and the Grail, set in ancient Britain and told by the son that Ator tried to kill as an infant, is told in "Prince of Exiles."
Table of Contents
Piper at the gate -- Intersection of Anastasia Yeoman and light -- Long divorce of steel -- Prince of exiles -- Gift of two grey horses -- Sword of the north -- Maltese feline -- Killer in the reign -- War of the roses -- Fairy ring -- We have met the enemy -- And king hereafter -- May eve -- Scandal -- Haut-Clare -- For I have sworn thee fair -- Lizzie Fair and the dragon of heart's desire.