The first book in The Borderlands Trilogy
When the last barley field in Hope Underhill is harvested a grisly discovery is made. The decaying corpse of a young woman is caught in the reapers blades.
John Noble, the new master of the village school, becomes entangled in the investigation, leading him to travel from Shropshire to Lancashire, and putting himself in great danger.
With the distractions of running the school and lovely young widow, will he be able to identify the murderer... and even more importantly prove it?
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