Rose is one courageous woman caught up in the campaign of terror during England's Reformation.

It is a treacherous time when the Bible is banned and heretics are burned at the stake

Derick, the village blacksmith who was Rose's first love, is condemned to a public death.

What will become of Rose? Of Derick? Of their coming child?

How will Rose react when she becomes the hunted? Will she live long enough to find meaning to her life?

Join Rose in her quest as the people, customs, language and everyday life of 16th Century England come alive.

One reviewer wrote but one sentence: "This is the best book I have ever read."