That Dazzling Sun

Lawrence Reid Bechtel

• Publisher: BQB Publishing
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781945448423
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

That Dazzling Sun, Book 2 in The Tinsmith's Apprentice trilogy, continues the vivid coming-of-age story of Isaac Granger, slave to Thomas Jefferson, begun in Bechtel's marvelously adept debut novel, "A Partial Sun" in which Isaac begins his complicated apprenticeship at age fifteen as a tinsmith in Philadelphia in the fall of 1790.

In this second book, Rachel Bringhouse, the tinsmith's daughter and Isaac's tutur, sails off to Englad to work alongside the famous social activist and poet, Hannah Moore, writing enthusiastic letters to Isaac and which Isaac answers back with assistance from the irrepressibly poetic cook's helper, Ovid. Meanwhile, Billey gardner, the feisty and opportunistic former slave of James Madison, pesters Isaac with notions of a business partnership; the charismatic Dr. Cornelius Sharp uses Isaac to confront Jefferson as a debt-ridden slaveowner; and the Reverend Richard Allen provides Isaac with a most surprising document.

When an exuberant Rachel returns from England with a key insight and Isaac's hated nemesis Daniel Shady reappears, bent on revenge, the book rises to its crescendo, in which Isaac must rise to his own power and bargain at last with Thomas Jefferson on his own terms.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• NOTICE TO THE READER
• FOREWORD
• PART I
• CHAPTER ONE
• CHAPTER TWO
• CHAPTER THREE
• CHAPTER FOUR
• CHAPTER FIVE
• CHAPTER SIX
• PART II
• CHAPTER SEVEN
• CHAPTER EIGHT
• CHAPTER NINE
• CHAPTER TEN
• CHAPTER ELEVEN
• CHAPTER TWELVE
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN
• PART III
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN
• PART IV
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
• CHAPTER NINETEEN
• CHAPTER TWENTY
• CHAPTER TWENTY - ONE
• CHAPTER TWENTY - TWO
• CHAPTER TWENTY - THREE
• CHAPTER TWENTY - FOUR
• CHAPTER TWENTY - FIVE
• CHAPTER TWENTY - SIX
• PART V
• CHAPTER TWENTY - SEVEN
• CHAPTER TWENTY - EIGHT
• CHAPTER TWENTY - NINE
• CHAPTER THIRTY
• CHAPTER THIRTY - ONE
• CHAPTER THIRTY - TWO
• CHAPTER THIRTY - THREE
• PART VI
• CHAPTER THIRTY - FOUR
• CHAPTER THIRTY - FIVE
• CHAPTER THIRTY - SIX
• CHAPTER THIRTY - SEVEN
• CHAPTER THIRTY - EIGHT
• CHAPTER THIRTY - NINE
• CHAPTER FORTY
• CHAPTER FORTY - ONE
• CHAPTER FORTY - TWO
• AFTERWORD
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR