Romance in the time of the Great Fire of London When Beth Westood suddenly found herself in London in a new century with a new name, she had no idea she wold falls desperately in love with a highwayman, who nursed her through the Black Plague, and then suddenly disappeared. If only she had a way to contact him but he turned up when she least expected it. When she received word that he was badly burned in a different area of London, she braved desperate mobs, cut throats and the cinders of London's still-burning streets to get to him, sick inside whether she would reach him in time.