the girl next door

Four lives. One story.
1571. Margaret Fryth, a quiet, 10 year old girl, is left on the streets of Elizabethan London for dead after a series of disasters hit her family. When she wakes up from her fever, however, she's lying in an abandoned theatre with a group of other urchins, including her brother. Here, they have another chance at life. It's here where they were born to be.
1573. James Fryth, a street urchin fighting a way in life with the group of kids who took him in when all seemed lost. He's only 14, and certainly doesn't want any more responsibility than he's already got. But a tiny baby girl trapped under a dead man? Surely there are some exceptions at that? Regan, that's what he names her. Little royal. His precious child.
1588. Myles Danet, a teenage boy just wanting to be out in the countryside, free from the cold grey of London. He's an artist, a lover of colour. He draws anything and everything. So when a girl's head appears in a window of the abandoned house next to him and he has paper and a pencil in his hands, he just has to draw her. He dates it. 11th April 1588. But this girl has something he knows nothing about. This girl has the power to change his life as he knows it.
1588. Regan Fryth, better known as Mist, a street urchin all her life, protected and nurtured by her family of orphaned and homeless kids living in the same theatre, together. She's always felt safe in crowds, with her brothers and sisters. Then she meets Myles, and their friendship develops. In a matter of weeks, they're inseparable. And Myles begins to arise some of the curiosity in her about her past.
Myles has never been a troublemaker, but if it's the only thing that will get him some attention from his mother, he'll do anything. Regan makes him want to find out about his father, and his curiosity is twigged. The friends strive to discover the truth about their past, and they soon discover that they are unmistakably linked.