At twelve, Arthur Vance is hungry enough to steal bread.

Instead of helping him, his cruel father turns his back and leaves him to face prison alone.

Sentenced to four years of hard labor, Arthur enters the gaol as a frightened boy and emerges at sixteen as a hardened young man with something more powerful than revenge—a plan.

With the knowledge taught to him by fellow prisoner Jonah Vance, Arthur returns to Iron Port determined to expose his father's crimes and prove the truth about his mother's death.

But Harlan Vance is a powerful man with money, influence, and dangerous friends.

Arthur has only the truth.

And this time, that may be enough.

A BOY AT TWELVE, A MAN AT SIXTEEN is a story of survival, justice, redemption, and a young man forced to grow up long before his time.