The Mysterious Millionaire

A broke boy. A stranger with secrets. One orange peel that changes everything.

Tom Walcott has spent four desperate weeks tramping the streets of New York, watching his last coins disappear and his pride follow close behind. He's nobody—a shabby-suited kid from Massachusetts with good manners and nowhere to sleep.

Then a door flies open on Wall Street.

A trembling millionaire drags Tom inside, presses five dollars into his hand, and sends him racing to Central Park on the strangest errand of his life. No explanations. No name. Just a tree, a bench, and orders to remember every word a stranger says to him.

Tom follows the instructions to the letter. And what he finds—an ordinary orange peel—turns out to be anything but ordinary.

Now Tom is thirty dollars richer, installed in a luxurious boarding house, and in the employ of a man who seems to own an office no one else can find. A beautiful woman appears in the dark. A slick dandy mentions the wrong things at the wrong moment. And the closer Tom gets to the truth, the more he suspects his mysterious employer is keeping secrets that could get them both killed.

Tom has gone from starving to working a job that doesn't make sense—yet.

Can he untangle the web before someone decides he knows too much?