A medieval widow takes over her husband’s brewery despite opposition, accidents, unexplained deaths.
The years following the Black Death were an age of uncertainty… and opportunity. Still, the village is shocked when Margaret Surteys takes on her dead husband’s brewery, despite her advanced age and opposition from the powerful Reeve. She also takes on her abandoned step-granddaughter, Agnes, who has plans of her own.
As the business grows, Margaret and Agnes battle official pressures, a string of mysterious mishaps at the brewery, and each other. Suspecting sabotage, possibly linked to her husband's death, they hatch a scheme to catch the culprit. It ends in disaster. Now Margaret must risk her livelihood and newfound autonomy to save the child she has come to love.
