She came from nothing. One false note could send her back. Ten-year-old Bess is only good at one thing-singing, which has no place in her family's bleak existence. When her father sells her to the king of England, she balances the loss of all she's known against a world of music and plenty, and builds a new life as a royal minstrel, earning the nickname the king's songbird. Bess comes of age in...