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King Henry III is finally put down the Simon de Montfort rebellion. The rest of the world wants some peace and quiet. By order of Henry III, the young Eleanor of Wynethorpe was appointed the head of the priority of Tyndal on the East Anglian coast.

She is joined by Brother Thomas who has been given a second chance by taking the cloth. But their arrivals have not met with the open arms one would hope.

When a well-liked monk is found beaten to death in the gardens, she and Brother Thomas have to get to the bottom of the crime as well as gain acceptance in the community. 

When her young nephew is in moral peril, Prioress Eleanor heeds the call of her father to come to Wynethorpe Castle near Wales to try to save the boy. She’s joined by Sister Anne and Brother Thomas.

But when a guest is found dead and her brother is found holding the knife, Eleanor has to prove her brother’s innocence despite her father and everyone else’s certainty he is the culprit.. 

Prioress Eleanor is facing a pivotal moment at the Tyndal Priory. There’s a deep debate over the purchase of a relic. On top of that, Crowner Ralf, the king’s instrument of justice, comes to the priory with evidence of a crime: a soldier was stabbed to death with a strange knife in the woods nearby.

The mysterious deceased man might have been a crusader. Brother Thomas is fingered as one of the suspects. Now Eleanor must solve the crime and manage expectations and emotions over that relic. 

Prioress Eleanor decided to travel to see her aunt Sister Beatrice at Amesbury Priory in 1272. She’s looking for some rest after nearly dying that winter from a fever.

But not all is well in Amesbury. There’s talk of a vengeful ghost. One man is found headless, and then another person is found dead. 

While Eleanor has to try to find out if these deaths are the result of supernatural or human hands, Brother Thomas is off on his own mission and finds himself confronting some of his own demons. 

Prioress Eleanor finds herself pulled in multiple directions. Her new anchoress, a female religious recluse, is upsetting folks as she meets people at her window at night (including a possible romantic interest) and her friend Crowner Ralf has a motherless baby to care for.

On top of that, the Prioress is taken aback that her companion, Brother Thomas, may not be entirely loyal to her. And she’s got to find out who poisoned the widely disliked Martin the Cooper. 

Making an unexpected stop at Master Stevyns’ manor, Prioress Eleanor finds herself in a tangled web of secrets. Infidelity and obsession seem to seep from the walls and floors of the manor.

But when someone is found dead, and then the accused servant is also killed, Prioress Eleanor may have to bring those secrets to light to solve the crime. 

England has a new king: King Edward. The new queen is coming to Tyndal Priory as part of her pilgrimage. Prioress Eleanor and the priory are working hard to make the queen and her retinue as comfortable as possible.

But Eleanor knows that court politics abound even with a religious visit. Brother Thomas has taken up a different route amidst the political intrigue: he’s decided to be a hermit.

So when a courtier is found murdered near Brother Thomas’ abode, Eleanor has a tightrope to walk to find the man’s murderer while managing the political game in her own priory. 

When Prioress Eleanor’s brother Sir Hugh of Wynethorpe asks for her help with an old friend, Prioress cannot refuse. Sir Hugh’s friend, Baron Herbert, has been acting oddly despite his triumphant return from the Crusades.

But when the Baron’s sons start to die in accidents, there’s whispers of the Devil and dark deeds. When Prioress Eleanor, Brother Thomas, and other members of their party arrive, another one of the Baron’s sons throws himself out a window to his death.

Can the Prioress help provide the spiritual healing to the Baron and find the devil behind these horrible deaths? 

Tensions rise in Tyndal when a man is found floating in the river. The villagers are all too happy to point the finger at the Jewish family, who recently arrived due to King Edward’s antisemitic Statute of the Jewry.

As mounting threats rise against the family, Eleanor and Crowner Ralf are trying to find out who killed the man. Could the newest lay brother, Brother Gwydo, be the murderer or even Gytha, the prioress’ maid?

Can they get to the bottom of this crime before the tensions boil order and more people die? 

Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas have decided to go to the shrine at Walsingham in East Anglia. What should have been a spiritual journey becomes marred when a nun falls out of the bell tower. They soon realize this was not an accident.

On top of the murder, there’s speculation that King Edward himself may visit the priory so the nun’s death may be even more sinister—it might be treacherous.

Eleanor and Brother Thomas have to find out who is behind the nun’s murder and the plot to kill the king. 

When the head of Prioress Eleanor’s order sends Father Etienne Davoir to inspect the Tyndal Priory, Prioress Eleanor has reason to be concerned. The Father is the brother of Abbess Isabeau so something nefarious is afoot.

But when one of Father Etienne’s clerks dies from a poisoned potion that Sister Anne sent him, Father Etienne suspects it may have been on purpose to scare him off.

Crowner Ralf has been called in to get to the bottom of it all but his list of suspects are impossible—his friends at the priory.  

Births and deaths follow each other in this 11th installment of Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas’ adventures.  Queen Eleanor has given birth but Baron Adam Wynethorpe, Eleanor’s father, is on the verge of death. Anti Semitism, encouraged and codified by the King, runs rampant, and Jewish lives are in turmoil as more and more laws limit what the Jewish population can do. 

The Baron’s family including Prioress Eleanor, her older brother Hugh back from Crusade, as well as Hugh’s bastard son, Richard, have all come to say goodbye at the Baron’s bedside. But when one of the Queen’s ladies, known for being a scarlet woman, is found dead, the prioress and brother think that it is not an accident and that someone in the crowded manor had reason to want the woman dead.

Will Eleanor learn that someone in her own family was the murderer? 

Papal politics abound as seven abbots are way-laid at Tyndal priory when one falls sick. They are on the way to discuss who would be appointed to the bishopric.

Despite Sister Anne’s knowledge of medicine, Abbot Ilbert dies. But he’s not the only abbot who meets an untimely death.

One by one, the abbots are falling like flies and it’s clear that someone is behind it all.  Crowner Ralf finds his loyalty divided, as his younger brother, Abbot Odo of Caldwell, is one of the suspects.

Can he put aside his dislike and family loyalty to find the murderer with Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas helping with the investigation? 

Prioress Eleanor’s brother, Baron Hugh, asks her to do a favor for him before he goes off to fight in Wales. He asks her to bring rent and a private letter to Prioress Amicia at the Hospitaller priory at Mynchen Buckland in Somerset.

When Eleanor arrives, she learns that the Prioress has been convicted of murder and awaiting her punishment. Prioress Amicia begs for help, insisting on her innocence.

Prioress Eleanor and her retinue decided to dig up this cold case to find out why the murder victim was killed and by whom. 

How can a dead man kill again? That’s what Prioress Eleanor along with Brother Thomas and Sister Anne are trying to figure out. Prioress Eleanor is accompanying her brother Robert and his pregnant wife away from the troubled English/Welsh border when they have to find shelter when the wife goes into labor.

While they are celebrating the health of the new mother and child, the Prioress is asked to investigate a strange death. A young priest has been murdered and a witness saw a Welsh stonemason standing over the body.

Except the Welshman had been hung…twice already for the death of English soldiers. Is a vengeful ghost on the prowl or was something else afoot? 

King Edward has raised taxes to fund his war but all that does is encourage smuggling. The King’s man, Crowner Ralf has been charged with bringing smugglers to justice.

But Ralf’s mind is elsewhere, his wife is sick and he wants to be at her side. The priory has its own issues including a dispute between mother and son. Soon the troubles boil over—a newcomer is found beaten nearly to death and then a merchant is left dead. Prioress Eleanor wants Ralf to help investigate the crime but his loyalties are torn.

However, it becomes clear that these crimes may not be one-offs but somehow related.  

Two deaths in one priory chapel. Prioress Eleanor and Crowner Ralf butt heads over jurisdiction; he claims the crown should investigate especially since it involves her cousin. One of the deaths was the wife of Eleanor’s cousin, the Earl of Ness.

The other was a priest. As Eleanor investigates, she realizes that her cousin may not have been guilt-free. But what about the second murder? Who wanted the priest dead?

Can Prioress Eleanor objectively investigate these crimes and restore faith and spirituality to her priory chapel?