The BurningLondon, 1665. The plague is killing thousands. Fear is about to kill hundreds more.
When panic sweeps through the city, powerful officials convince themselves that foreigners are spreading the disease. Under the promise of only three days of protection, more than two hundred Dutch craftsmen, French refugees, African sailors and servants, and their families are ordered into St. Jude's Parish.
Then the doors are locked from the outside.
As food disappears, water turns foul, and hope dies behind stone walls, the imprisoned families discover that they have not been quarantined-they have been abandoned. When a handful of survivors escape through forgotten tunnels beneath the church, they carry with them written testimony of the crime. To protect their reputations, the men responsible erase records, silence witnesses, and hunt down everyone who knows the truth.
A year later, Agnes de Vries returns to London searching for the husband who never came home. Hidden beneath a bakery on Pudding Lane, she uncovers the survivors' secret testimony-and evidence that powerful men will kill to keep buried.
Then London catches fire.
As the Great Fire consumes the city, Agnes must race against time to expose a conspiracy before the flames destroy the last proof of what happened inside St. Jude's. But the men behind the cover-up have already found the perfect scapegoat, and with every street that burns, history itself is being rewritten.
Inspired by the true events of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, The Burning is a gripping historical thriller about fear, injustice, forgotten lives, and the extraordinary courage of those who refuse to let the dead be erased.
