14th century

In fourteenth-century Norway, the plague has destroyed Rype's entire village, and as the sole survivor, she embarks on a sweeping adventure across Europe with the son of an English ship captain and a band of troubadours in search of a brighter future and a new home.

"During a resurgence of the plague in 1361 London, Oswald de Lacy moves his family into his friend's island-fortress where he must uncover a murderer living among them"--Provided by publisher.

"The Black Death sounds like the name of a creepy movie, but it was an actual historical event. It was the term for the pandemic of plague throughout Europe and Asia in the fourteenth-century. Before it was over, tens of millions of people had died. Readers will . . . learn of the disturbing details of this gruesome disease and how it spread. They'll learn how people coped, how the world changed, and that plague still exists"--Provided by publisher.

"The Black Death sounds like the name of a creepy movie, but it was an actual historical event. It was the term for the pandemic of plague throughout Europe and Asia in the fourteenth-century. Before it was over, tens of millions of people had died. Readers will . . . learn of the disturbing details of this gruesome disease and how it spread. They'll learn how people coped, how the world changed, and that plague still exists"--Provided by publisher.

A young boy learns from his grandfather what it takes to become a master stonemason and work at the cathedral in Canterbury in the fourteenth century.

In 1350s England, Oswald de Lacy returns from a monastery to become the Lord of Somerhill Manor after a plague, where he is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman whom the villagers claim was killed by a band of demonic dog-headed men.

An itinerant troupe of actors, hiding a priest among them, unwittingly hits upon the truth when they devise a play out of a murder that has taken place in the town they are visiting.

A reclusive cloth merchant hires disgraced knight Crispin Guest to verify his suspicions that his young wife is being unfaithful, but the case becomes complicated when the merchant is found murdered in a room locked from the inside.

Recreates the fourteenth-century testimony of Grazida Lizier, who was tried for heresy during the Inquisition, relating a story of religious persecution where three generations are torn between spiritual grace and sensual wonder.