In 1940's London, three women and a young man find their lives connected in surprising ways as they struggle to cope with the horror, violence, and tragedy of the war.

Jack embarks on a journey to save London from a magician trying to turn the city to gold, but first he must release a dragon and rescue seven kidnapped boys who will help Jack finish his quest.

In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and the mistreatment of his simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.

Fifteen-year-old Nell is rescued from her impoverish life with her family in London due to her resemblance to King Edward the Third's daughter, Princess Joan, but when the plague takes the life of Joan, Nell is forced by Joan's brother to take on the princess's identity full-time.

In the mid-eighteenth century, frightened and pregnant seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel runs away from her home in Sussex and ends up on the grimy streets of London where her fortunes will forever change.

Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

Bow Street Superintendent Thomas Pitt is called to the scene when one of London's back alley prostitutes is found murdered and there is evidence left at the scene implicating the son of a wealthy, powerful gentleman.

The lives of two women in a small Cape Cod town are impacted by the radio broadcasts of Frankie Bard, an American journalist in London who hopes that by revealing details of World War II she will encourage the United States to take up the cause.