FALLEN ANGELSummer 1225. Change is in the air. There is a new religious force in the world: the preaching friars. When the first of these arrives in Bury he is greeted with suspicion by some of the monks. What does he want? Why has he come to Bury?Their mistrust seems justified when strange things begin to happen. The abbey comes under attack from a plague of rats and deadly poisonous gas.Then one of the monks is murdered.The prior attempts to calm nerves by appealing to the saint whose name the abbey bears. Is it the new friar who is doing these things or is there some supernatural power at work?Walter is not convinced and decides to investigate. Only when all the children of the town suddenly disappear is the truth at last revealed.