Twelve year old Isabel Pritchard lives with her sixteen year old
brother, William, and their mother. Behind Isabel's home is a small park
and when Isabel finds herself late home from school one afternoon she
decides to take a short cut through the park, knowing that her mother
has forbidden her to enter the park. It's a decision that changes her
life as she uncovers family secrets that go back five hundred years, all
the way to the birth of Queen Elizabeth the First.