Romance in the time of the Great Fire of London When Beth Westwood suddenly found herself in London in a new century and with a new name, she had no idea she would desperately in love with a highwayman, who nursed her through the Black Plague and who 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 part of London, she braved desperate mobs, cutthroats and the cinders of still-burning streets to get to him, sick inside whether she would reach him in time.