In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen & Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing & agrees to accompany a friend to Wales. When Cadfael is captured by an army of Danish mercenaries, he finds himself in the midst of a brotherly quarrel that could plunge an entire kingdom into deadly chaos.
- ISBN10 0708853447
- ISBN13 9780708853443
- Publish Date 25 August 1992 (first published 11 April 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 December 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 280
- Language English