Ten years is a long time to be away from home, when you leave as a boy and return a man.
In 1790, Lord John Latham, the fifteen-year-old son of a marquis, sailed to the West Indies where he became the manager of the family’s sugarcane plantation and discovered boxing, a life very different from the privileged one he left behind.
The demands of the plantation, and the brutality of the boxing ring, helped shape the brash, over-confident boy into a thoughtful, confident young man.
When Latham returned to England in 1800, his privileged life was once again thrust upon him—a life at odds with his formative years—and complicated still further by his re-acquaintance with a childhood friend.
Returned, it is a world in which Lord John Latham must decide if he can remain.
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