It's 1347 and fifteen-year-old Will, an orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey Sent into the forest to gather wood, he rescues instead, a creature from a trap - a hob, who shares with Will a terrible secret Somewhere in the forest behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave And buried deep in the snow is an angel But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the monks of the Abbey? When two hooded strangers arrive at Crowfield asking questions about the angel's grave Will is drawn into a world of dangerous Old Magic