The River's Gift
Mercedes Lackey
Roc Books, 1999
ISBN: 0-451-45759-5 (hardcover)
A new novel from Mercedes Lackey is always a special event. Now, for the first time, this fantasy
legend has contributed a brand-new novella for Roc's fantasy hardcover line--a deluxe showcase
for major talents such as Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
In The River's Gift, a young woman uses her healing gifts to help a magical horse-like
creature--and receives, in return, the greatest gift of all...
Fifteen-year-old Ariella, lady-to-be of medieval Swan Manor, possesses magical healing abilities
that she practices on the animals in the forest adjacent to her father's lands. One day a magnificent
black horse emerges from the nearby river in need of her ministry. The horse is Merod, and he is a
more-than-mortal Kelpie, a magical being who converses telepathically with Ariella. Distrustful at
first, he warms to Ariella gradually, which is vital to her when, after her father's sudden death, she is
taken away by a brutish cousin to be his bride.
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