Fog City Iron

Samuelu "Big Sam" Fatu is the strongest, gentlest boy in the whole foggy Avenues of San Francisco, and just about the happiest one too.

He can sing like his mama, lift like his daddy, and do the one thing his grandfather taught him down in a warm church basement before he could tie his own shoes: get quiet, and listen, and hear exactly what a cold dead machine needs to come roaring back to life. Give Sam a boiler two grown men can't budge and a furnace nobody else can wake, and he'll have a whole house warm by supper.

When a girl named Jordan pulls him onto a crew of neighborhood kids learning the trades, Sam finds his people - his oldest friend Deuce, quiet fierce Priya, the whole Fog City Fixers crew. But when his father gets hurt and a hard winter comes down on the family, Sam quietly takes up more than his share, the way his people always have.

And on the coldest night in thirty years, with a church full of freezing elders and a dead boiler nobody can save, the whole neighborhood is about to find out just what the big gentle boy has been carrying all along.

A big-hearted San Francisco novel about family, finding your people, and the quiet strength it takes to keep everybody warm. Book Four of the Fog City Fixers series.