San Francisco, 1849: a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with
desperate men come to seek their fortune. Among them are former
convicts, Australians quick to seize control in a town without masters,
a town for the taking. Into this world steps an Australian boy in search
of his mother. Just twelve years old, and all alone in a time of
opportunism, loyalty and violent betrayal, Samuel Bellamy must learn to
become one of the Sydney Coves if he is to survive.