November 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richards reign a nun rides out for York & the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes a boy on the English throne & a volatile peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tylers murder. Travelling alone Hildegaard encounters a gibbet with five bloodied crow-stripped corpses & later the body of a youth brutally butchered. Who is he? & what is his connection to the hanged men? Murder will touch Hildegaard & those she loves even more closely as she rides on to her childhood home. Castle Hutton is riven by treachery. Old loyalties are shifting. Hildegard will need all her courage to counter the dark forces in the l&. First in an engrossing new series of medieval mysteries Hangman Blind introduces an intrepid new heroine.