Severn Crossing

The Severn bends, and the war has come to the waterside. Four troopers of the New Model Army are billeted at the ferry house, and a lone woman cannot hold the latch against the wolves.Margaret of the Crossing is no town lady. She hauls barges, cracks drovers' crowns with her mallet, and has kept her father's house running through fever and frost. But when the billet‑master marks her home for four ...