The virgin in the ice : the sixth chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Review 'Charming and humorously told.' SPECTATOR Product Description In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a young nun, they set out for Shrewsbury, but disappear somewhere in the wild countryside. Now, Brother Cadfael embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. Previously out of print. In the winter of 1139 ad, as Civil War rages between the followers of king Stephen and those of the empress Maud, two young refugee orphans and the nun who was accompanying them seem to have disappeared on their way to Shrewsbury Brother Cadfael sets out to find a young nun and her two wards who have disappeared, and comes upon a desperate villain, an unusual affair of the heart, and the possible implication of his own abbey Cadfael attends to a brother beaten and left for dead, and searches for missing siblings and their nun escort. In the meantime, a band of marauders pillages the countryside.