When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. The hospitality is warm but the underlying passions among the steward's family are scorching. So it is no surprise when someone's throat is cut.But the sheriff does all he can to avoid offending the family rather than seek the real killer. When he arrests a servant, she is stabbed before she can either prove innocence or be taken off for hanging.Strangers in this place, Eleanor and Thomas know nothing about motives or history, yet God's justice demands they do what they can before another convenient innocent dies. Will they discover the dark secrets that led to these killings before the murderer strikes again?