BLACK WREATH

A story of danger and adventure, and of one boy's fight for freedom against
all odds.

One boy's fight for his name and his life takes him from cut-throat crime in Dublin city to terrifying slavery in America. Based on a true eighteenth-century story. Thirteen-year-old James Lovett finds himself abandoned on Dublin's teeming streets. Heir to the title Lord Dunmain, his father and stepmother have conspired, for their own ends, to make him disappear. James is drawn into a world of thieves, highwaymen and warring gangs. He finds friends in strange places, staying one step ahead of the mysterious, ruthless assassins who are on his trail. But when he is sold into a life of slavery, he has to find a way to escape and claim back his life and his inheritance. A story of danger and adventure, and of one boy's fight for freedom against all odds.