In which a lone traveller pursues a mysterious stranger to the grand but somber estate of Stallbridge-le-Carthew, where the weight of a family’s faded glories and whispered sorrows lingers in every shadowed corner and well-kept garden. Amidst the genteel confines of the manor’s ancient halls and humble inn, an unexpected clue concealed in postage-stamps offers a delicate thread of hope in the delicate dance of chance and cunning.