Summer’s End — Alice K. Boatwright

American Ellie Kent has been looking forward to Little Beecham's traditional climax to the summer, when her husband Graham and the Beecham Morris will perform an 11th-century horn dance in the woods by the light of the full moon.

Never could she have imagined the disaster ahead or the role she will play in solving the mystery that results. As she struggles to understand what happened and why, she is drawn deeply into the problems of people whose lives have been shaped -- and threatened -- by even more ancient laws and prejudices.

It's not the way she hoped her first year in England would end, but it does show her the progress she has made from foreign "incomer" to one of a family and a valued part of her village.