The red velvet turnshoe - Cassandra Clark

Black February in the year 1383: rain started to fall before Martinmas, sweeping through France, Flanders and Tuscany, bringing floods, famine and the Black Death. Into this watery world, against a background of plague and the political turmoil of the Hundred Years War, the nun Hildegard is sent across Europe in search of a precious relic, the Cross of Constantine. Strong-willed and independent, she will need all her remarkable skills to survive, for with the English Crown at stake there are many who want her mission to fail - and one, above all, who plans a deadly revenge...