A fourteen-year-old orphan apprenticed as a silversmith when we first meet him, Johnny is skilled and intelligent but also arrogant and cocky. When an injury to his hand destroys his future as a silversmith it also shakes his sense of identity. Instead of being the head apprentice, adored, and respected he finds himself out of work and despised. Instead of being welcomed as a long-lost member of the Lyte family he finds himself thrown into jail. On the brink of changing into a thief and vagabond he is saved by his association with Rab Silsbee and through him becomes acquainted with the Sons of Liberty and Boston's revolutionary movement.
Over a period of two years Johnny changes and grows. In the void left by the future he'd planned and the past he thought he'd come.....
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