In this, the fourth instalment in the Village Tales series, tragedy, crisis, and redemption shake the Woolfonts and the little Downland villages, even as the Downlands are awakened from their fleecy slumber and Professor Millicent the baroness Lacy and her team make new discoveries which overshadow even the traces of an Iron Age settlement greater than Duropolis: and not all her discoveries are in the field and at the dig. The peace of the day chronicled in is shattered; but something new can yet be forged from its shards ... if only by all of Canon Paddick's saintliness, the duke of Taunton's cunning, and Lady Lacy's formidable wisdom. Crime, death, dirty dealings, bereavements, and a scholarly shock that startles scholarship; and all beneath the incurious gaze of the sheep on the everlasting Downs, beneath an illimitable sky. It's simply another six months in the Woolfonts, the Downlands, and their District....