The Filigree Master's Apprentice

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set in a city of merchants and workers sailors and kings the privileged and the poor <em>The Filigree Master's Apprentice</em> is a story of resilience friendship and a young man's search for his place in a changing world. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p>