Apprentice healer Lassair isn t too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman s home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation.The incident makes Lassair s family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for something. What could it be? Lassair has...