Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in September of the year of our Lord 1140 a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud secretive nineteen-year-old novice.
Brother Cadfael has never seen two men more estranged than the Lord of Aspley and Meriet the son he coldly delivers to the abbey to begin a religious vocation. Meriet meek by day is so racked by dreams at night that his howls earn him the nickname the Devil’s Novice. Shunned and feared Meriet is soon linked to the missing priest’s dreadful fate.
Only Brother Cadfael believes in Meriet’s innocence and only the good sleuth can uncover the truth before the boy’s pure passion leads him to the noose.
A Blackstone Audio production.
