Robert McAllister has seen more death and sorrow than any eleven-year-old boy should be called on to endure. He has also learned more in his tenth and eleventh years about people than some can learn in a lifetime.
Now with 4,000 dollars in gold double eagles hidden on a mountain within sight of his deadliest enemy, slave owner Charles Sprague, Robert much choose between freedom and riches.
He has one blood relative left to cling to: a mother who has forsaken him. If he can get the gold and get away safely, will she take him back in? And if that is her reason for taking him back, does he even want her?
These are the life-changing choices before young Robert now as he feels his way through life, intermittently fleeing mortal danger as he learns who he can and cannot trust, in a world of people from every walk of life.
Now with 4,000 dollars in gold double eagles hidden on a mountain within sight of his deadliest enemy, slave owner Charles Sprague, Robert much choose between freedom and riches.
He has one blood relative left to cling to: a mother who has forsaken him. If he can get the gold and get away safely, will she take him back in? And if that is her reason for taking him back, does he even want her?
These are the life-changing choices before young Robert now as he feels his way through life, intermittently fleeing mortal danger as he learns who he can and cannot trust, in a world of people from every walk of life.
