Book description
An elderly pilgrim dies in Hawkenlye Vale. Nothing suspicious about
that: he was gravely ill when he arrived. Meanwhile Josse d'Acquin has a
visit from Prince John. Accompanied by his seer, the Prince urgently
seeks news of a stranger, Galbertius Sidonius. Hurrying to Hawkenlye
Abbey to enlist the Abbess Helewise's help, Josse finds that she has a
problem of her own: a decomposing body has been discovered. Naked, and
killed by an expert hand. Josse's brother, Yves, arrives; a visitor at
Acquin has been asking for the brothers' father, Geoffroi, who went to
Outremer with King Louis and Queen Eleanor. Josse, Yves and the Abbess
are hurled into a mystery whose roots stretch back much further than the
Second Crusade. And, watching them with his strange dark eyes, is the
enigmatic figure of the Prince's Magister...
