The Filigree Master's Apprentice - Paperback

by Jeannine Johnson Maia (Author)

Set in a city of merchants and workers, sailors and kings, the privileged and the poor, The Filigree Master's Apprentice is a story of resilience, friendship, and a young man's search for his place in a changing world.

Portugal, October 1877: When 17-year-old Henrique is offered a job in Porto, he seizes the opportunity to escape his harsh life among the vineyards of a Port wine estate. Behind him is a searing betrayal he cannot forget. Ahead is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work in the elegant shop of a goldsmith in a city preparing to inaugurate Gustave Eiffel's magnificent iron bridge over the Douro River.

In Porto, the welcome he receives is far from friendly. As Henrique navigates its sinuous streets, rubs shoulders with mapmakers and rabble-rousers, and struggles to master the delicate art of filigree, he learns that skill alone may not be enough to secure his future.

When someone from his past resurfaces, reviving old accusations of thievery, Henrique must confront the very history he hoped to escape - or risk losing everything he's worked so hard to build.