As Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club, "Sister" Jane Arnold is the most respected citizen in her Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town. The region is ruled by proper social conduct and deep-seated tradition, yet murders sometimes do occur, and in Rita Mae Brown's long-running series, Sister Jane always proves ready to hunt down evildoers.

It's February, prime foxhunting season for the members of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club. Then a shocking event alarms the community: A woman is found murdered and meticulously placed atop a horse statue outside a tack shop. With few clues to go on, "Sister" Jane Arnold, uses her fine-tuned horse sense to try to solve the mystery of this "Lady Godiva" murder. In this 6th outing (after The Hounds and the Fury) the septuagenarian still has a strong spring in her step and her wits about her, and she will need both to avoid becoming the killer's next victim.