It seems that in the past week 700 people have died of the plague. . . One of thehouses in the next street had a red cross painted on the door. Above the cross someonehad chalked Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. . . A time of horror has come to London. As the bubonic plague ravages the city,mercilessly plucking up victims and filling the plague pits with corpses, 13-yearoldAlice Payton records the outbreak in her diary. But when her own aunt isstruck down with the disease, Anne is forced to make a decision that could changeher life forever.