1Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they've had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard's treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes missing five days later -- also a Munnings, also of a woman hunting sidesaddle -- Sister Jane knows it's no coincidence. Someone is stealing paintings of foxhunters from foxhunters. But why?