Black Powder on Bunker Hill

Caleb Cannon has nothing either. Abandoned at birth and raised under the cane of a brutal Manhattan landlord, he wants one thing: to become a man who matters. He and his uncle, the one-eyed German gunsmith Arno Solinger, have built a breech-loading rifle fifty years ahead of its time. If the rebels need powder, Caleb will steal it.

He gathers a crew of outcasts, raids British magazines, and makes a secret pact with Boston’s rebel leaders that puts him in the church belfry at Lexington, about to fire the first shot of the war.

From the smoke of Bunker Hill to the camp of General Washington, Caleb fights for a country not yet born. Meanwhile his true birth, kept secret by the woman who gave him up, may make him a target on both sides of the war.