Description

He's never cracked his monastic vows--so far, while Cadfael has bent Abbey guidelines. Term has arrived at Shrewsbury of the dangerous work that's left thirty of Maud's knights jailed. All have now been ransomed except Cadfaelis key boy, Olivier. Created in Cadfael's soldiering childhood and unacquainted with his father's id, Olivier may die if he's not liberated.