Talbot Company: A Story of War and Suffering in Bloomington, MN

Sophia Fortezza, an Italian merchant's daughter, seeks to escape her debtors through a life of adventure and romance.
At the outset of the Thirty Years War, Sophia is about to experience the trauma of battle and the pain of the whip.
But she need not endure these shocks alone. New friends like the Spanish soldier Don Alfonso and the English peasant James Fletcher will all suffer equally under the banner of the honorable Talbot Company.