For fourteen years, Theo Mercer has believed his mother was lost at sea. Then a routine salvage job brings a sealed container aboard the Golden-and inside it, a clue in her handwriting.
As an apprentice navigator, Theo knows how to plot a course. He has no idea how to follow a trail of missing records, silenced witnesses, and questions the captain who raised him has never answered.
The deeper he searches, the more dangerous the truth becomes. His mother's work threatened a powerful company, and someone still wants it buried. To uncover what happened, Theo must learn whom to trust, confront the secrets within his own makeshift family, and decide what he is willing to risk for an answer.
Theo of Golden is a mystery of family secrets, divided loyalties, and a young man's search for the mother he thought he had lost-and the life he can still choose.