What Can I Give Him?

Last in the "In The Bleak Midwinter" collection, "What Can I Give Him?" is the story of Matthias Lecomte, son of Barnabas Lecomte, and takes place twenty-five years after the events of "The Angel and the Rose".

What do you get the man who has everything - or will have it, in just one more day? One young mage, preparing to fill his father's expectations of conquest by using the commoners' season of love and joy against them, is asked by his friends what he would like for Christmas, and impulsively responds from his heart...