It is the summer of 1322 & two playmates have uncovered the body of a young girl up on the moors. The body is that of Aline the ten-year-old daughter of Swetricus who went missing six years ago. Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the King's Peace & his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock are summoned to investigate & soon discover Aline is not the only young girl to have been found dead in recent years. It seems that the villagers have been concealing not only a serial killer but a possible case of cannibalism. Or even if the rumours are to be believed a vampire!