Set in a city of merchants and workers, sailors and kings, the privileged and the poor, The Filigree Master’s Apprentice is a story of resilience, friendship, and a young man’s search for the person he wants to become.

Portugal, October 1877: Portugal, Autumn of 1877: As Porto prepares to inaugurate Gustave Eiffel’s magnificent iron bridge over the Douro River, 17-year-old Henrique flees the harsh conditions of life far upriver among the vineyards of a Port wine estate.

Behind him is a searing betrayal he wants to forget. Ahead is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice in a goldsmith’s shop in the city’s elegant Street of Flowers.

Determined to make Porto his own, he explores its sinuous streets, rubbing shoulders with mapmakers and rabble-rousers, and begins to learn the delicate art of filigree-making. Until an acquaintance from his past appears, dredging up old accusations of thievery and threatening all he's built...

In a city filled with intrigue and betrayal, Rossio Square N. °59 is a story of lost dreams, infinite hope, and two young people caught up in change they never sought or wanted.

Lisbon, April 1941: As Hitler’s army marches across Europe, 17-year-old Claire flees to Lisbon alone. But the Portuguese capital isn’t the safe haven she expected. When two refugee children she promised to take care of go missing, she sets out on a dangerous search to find them.

Antonio, an aspiring artist and occasional pickpocket, waits tables in a café that's a wartime hotspot for plotters and spies. When a German refugee he's befriended is murdered, Antonio knows he owes it to his friend to find out why.

Amid the chaos of WWII Lisbon, their investigations intertwine as Claire and Antonio uncover a secret that others have died to keep. What they don’t know is that it could cost them everything.