
An attack in the dark, screams, burning huts... Thirteen-year-old Theodore crouches under the trees. His father's Mission has been destroyed. His father is dead. Theodore is on his own, fleeing the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising. Then Mrs Jones appears. A botanist, Mrs...



An attack in the dark, screams, burning huts... Thirteen-year-old Theodore crouches under the trees. His father's Mission has been destroyed. His father is dead. Theodore is on his own, fleeing the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising. Then Mrs Jones appears. A botanist, Mrs...

When Theodore's safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life-and his faith-are in danger Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father's missionary settlement is attacked and burned in the night. Theodore follows his father's...


