<p><strong>An engrossing read in the successful Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series.</strong></p> <p>Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer - a knight of the realm - disappears while travelling from her husband&apos;s manor to Bampton. They have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while they were traveling on Lord Gilbert&apos;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?</p>