Where was Saxon's missing wife? Cleone Bancroft's efforts to excavate a Roman villa on Saxon Turville's estate weren't meeting with much success. She had a formidable opponent in the man they called the Cotswold Lion -- Saxon himself -- whose passion for privacy was only matched by his hatred of archaeologists. What mystery lay buried beneath the soil he so adamantly refused to let Cleone disturb? Had Saxon something to hide, some secret from his recent past?