Winter, 1139: Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in the monastry gardens at Shrewbury is one again interrupted by violent, mysterious happenings. Raging civil war had sent many refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them two orphans from a great family and their companion, a nun. But they seem to have disappeared somewhere in the wild winter landscape of frost and snow - and Cadfael sets out to find them.
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