Set in 15th century England, Yorkshire Mysteries, Book One: The Pilfered Pouch tells the story of two girls who come from very different backgrounds. Bess Cardwell is wealthy, blonde, petite, and quite unhappy. Her mother died when she was only three years old, and ever since her father re-married and had another daughter, she has felt out of place and thoroughly ignored. Jasmine Bowles is a butcher's daughter, whose own mother died just one year ago. She is opposite to Bess in both appearance and circumstance, but is just as miserable. When Jasmine accidentally knocks Bess down in the...