Lizzy and Josh have their friendship put to the test when Lizzy's father joins the reform movement, which puts him in confrontation with Josh's father, the wealthy mill owner.
Contains two novels in which Rachel and Robert, two young people living in London in 1665, share their individual stories of the chaos that erupts when the city is gripped by the plague.
Elias comes to the new world, apprenticed to a barber-surgeon in Jamestown Colony, and when he arrives he meets Sacahocan, a Pamunkee Indian in training to be a medicine woman. Includes two stories, one from each character's perspective.
Frank, an English Boy, and Hannah, a German Jewish refugee, are both evacuated from London to the countryside, and have two different perspectives on the war that has taken them away from familiar surroundings.