<p>Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey.</P><P> Yet as fate would have it Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony’s gates. He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom—an arrogant fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather—and he quickly discerns that this union may be more damned than blessed.     </p> <p>Indeed a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Brother Cadfael with a dark terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing—and a secret—is hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael’s skills must ferret out a sickness not of the body but of a twisted soul.</p></p><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>