Aiden Lynch is a survivor--only 16 years old, he's seen himself through
near-starvation on the Kansas prairie, a brutal journey on the Oregon
trail, and backbreaking work in a lumber camp. Now he's reached the
glittering city of San Francisco, and though his future is uncertain,
promise lies ahead. Luck seems to favor him as he manages to stay one
step ahead of trouble, even in the city's notoriously dangerous Barbary
Coast. And it is pure fortune that leads him to a wealthy family, and
then the high-stakes poker game in which he wins a ship--fully outfitted
and ready for trade. The trade he has inherited: importing guano, a
highly potent fertilizer, from island mines in Peru.
But what he
finds in Peru is a savage business--conditions at the mines are
unthinkable, the workers forced into servitude. When Aiden becomes
involved with a miner who claims to be a kidnapped Chinese nobleman, all
his loyalties are called into question, and he's plunged into a
dangerous game.
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