Sin, death - and a love that conquers all England in the 17th century: Young Dorcas grows up in a home as pious as it is strict. When she secretly takes a bath naked in the river, she is surprised by the young nobleman Toby Lazen. But her begrudging brother Ebenezer has also witnessed everything. When Dorcas is then to be married off to an older brother in the faith, she seeks her salvation in flight. She has previously found a strange amulet in her father's study. And a letter: The jewel is said to be the key to her past. When she meets Toby again, her heart is soon ablaze for him. As blazing as the funeral pyres in front of the Tower of London ...
