Brilliant, sensitive, and gifted, young Titus Booth has the world by the tail.His adoring father runs a thriving mercantile, while his beautiful mother arranges an unorthodox and entertaining education for her beloved boy genius.The death of his much-loved Granny Tess, a plucky Irish widow who posed as a man to fight in the Civil War, sets in motion a series of tragedies that make the young man question his very being.After a chance meeting with a wealthy benefactor who takes an unusual liking to him, Titus sets out on a grand world adventure to find his purpose and shape his inquiring mind. Just as Titus begins to find his bearings, all goes terribly wrong.A sickening exploitation and betrayal shake his moral compass, and the innocent young man is no more. Someone or something much more powerful and fearsome emerges to embark on a deadly path of rage and revenge in the stunning crime novel The Birth of a Vigilante.