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While Owen Archer, ex-soldier and spy, finds his plans to obtain a safe passage to Wales thwarted by the death of his stonemason, his wife believes that he has abandoned his family and the Archbishop of York orders his immediate return, but Owen is prevented from returning home when he is caught in the midst of a country divided by war and in the clutches of a rebel leader. Reprint.
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St. David's, Wales, late spring, 1370. After a pilgrimage to the land of his birth, Owen Archer is anxious to go back to York and his herbalist wife, Lucie, and children. Then death changes his plans: He is called to investigate the strange hanging of a young stone carver, driven to suicide by a broken heart...or deviously murdered. Unknown to Owen, Lucie is in dire trouble, charged with poisoning a client. Alone and distressed, she turns to Harold Galfrey, a mysterious steward who has appointed himself her protector. Now Lucie faces an earthly temptation -- and a chilling betrayal. But Owen is caught up in a country at war where a cunning rebel leader plots to have Owen Archer sign up for the ferocious fight...and never return home. Book jacket.
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