The antique quilt was exquisitely embroidered with flowers and leaves. A labour of love, Bronwen thought. Until she discovered a darker purpose to the quilt's design. Sixteen year old Cat asks textile artist Bronwen Jones for help in uncovering the history of her heritage quilt, and the rumoured lost inheritance. But when Cat goes missing from her Shropshire home, and a schoolgirl is found murdered, Bron discovers the thread that links past and present, and the deadly secret the quilt contains.

'Every quilt tells a story', but textile artist Bronwen Jones soon discovers that not all the stories are happy ones. As the new Quilter in Residence in the small mid-Wales town of Llannon, Bronwen seeks to uncover the area's quilting heritage, but she soon finds herself caught up in a modern mystery. Is there a link between the disappearance of a young girl two years ago, and the hit-and-run victim found at the roadside? And whose bones have just been unearthed in a landslip on a remote hillside? According to DS Flint, the body has been buried for over seventy years. The victim died a...