In 1927, the remains of an unidentified man are found beneath the snow in the grounds of Maxstead Court, home of the wealthy Scroope family, a discovery that may be connected to the drowning death of a local veteran twenty-five years earlier 1927. The discovery of the remains of a middle-aged man buried beneath the snow in the grounds of Maxtead Court, home of the wealthy Scroope family, triggers a series of murders and an intriguing mystery whose roots lie in South Africa and a shocking incident during the Boer War more than twenty years before.
