The summer solstice is drawing near and two groups are camped near Hungerford: the New Age travellers with their incense-scented camper vans and the Romanies, preparing for their summer fair. Tensions between the townspeople and the travellers are already running high, and when six-year-old Jordan Abbot goes missing from her home in Hungerford the angry residents blame a simple-minded Romany lad. Taking the law into their own hands, an angry mob descends upon the gypsy encampment.Superintendent Gregory Summers of the Hungerford police force tries to appease the locals, but to no avail; their clamour for vengeance knows no bounds. It is a mysterious stranger, a lone traveller in an old-fashioned gypsy wagon, who saves the boy from the mob's rough justice.As Summers discovers more about the life and death of Jordan Abbot, his suspicions are wide-ranging. The girl's mother is hiding something - but what? And what is the lone traveller's connection with the gypsies? In the face of media hostility and local scorn, Summers is himself an outcast, battling against private demons and the public hunger for revenge. Read Less