In a Land ravaged by plague and rebellion, Cressida takes flight from the menace of the lord to whom she and her young brother are slaves. But his violent courtship tracks her even to the teeming streets of London where she must hide for a year and a day if she is ever to be free - to live, and love, as she chooses. Emerging triumphantly, a golden beauty at the King's court and desired by many men, she marries the rebel scholar she has loved since childhood. Yet, haunted by the figures from her past, she seems doomed to lose all she holds most dear. Until the night the peasant armies revol... View More...