Publisher's Synopsis
Growing up as the improper son of a wealthy white merchant and his Creole mistress, Randulet Thibodeaux is a street-savvy Southern boy who's seen more prejudice and hardship than any boy should have to. When his younger brother dies in a tragic accident, Randulet realizes that he's tougher than the devil by a damn sight, and he's going to need to be tough to protect himself and his family from the workings of an underground bent on his destruction. As he does what he must to save himself from a plot contrived by greed and carried out by evil, he comes to understand that God has carved him out of rough stone to shine like diamonds of the quarter, and as he comes of age, he triumphs as an unlikely hero.
