An engrossing read in the successful Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series.

Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer - a knight of the realm - disappears while travelling from her husband's manor to Bampton. They have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while they were traveling on Lord Gilbert's lands, his surgeon and bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is assigned to discover what has happened to the lady. Can Hugh help find her, or is it already too late?