Tabula Rasa

The medicus Ruso and wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, and Ruso's clerk, Candidus, goes missing. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances, a scheme emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.