Jade Cabral strides into the 21st century as a golden guy. Brilliant and beautiful, with a California cool and a Harvard education, he is poised for wealth and success in New York’s Financial District.<br><br>But Jade harbors a secret flaw, a thirst for revenge against Se?or Rodriguez, the California landowner who deprived his father – Se?or’s out-of-wedlock son, John Virgil -- of his family’s rightful inheritance and place in the world. Jade thinks if he succeeds in New York, he can make up for every loss and humiliation his family has endured at the hands of Se?or. That searing quest leads him into the arms of Nan Spencer, a lovely, fragile socialite, and to the top of the financial world, the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001.

Seamless Sky

All to impress Harvard, which would lead to the “B” school, which would land him in a big Wall Street firm, which would lead to his first million before he was thirty.


“Do you think it’s the right goal?” his father asked as he prepared to send his firstborn off to Harvard.


“You have a point, Daddy,” Jade said. “I mean, the market’s been stagnant. Poor President Bush. The guy’s the Typhoid Mary of the economy. Mark my words: He’ll never get a second term.”


“You sure?” John Virgil teased, laughing at his son’s confidence in his own opinions, so much like Isa.


“Sure as I’m standing here in front of you. And here’s another prediction I’ll make: The minute Bush leaves office, the economy’s going to turn around. I want to be there to cash in when it does.”


“Well, you’ve always been good at scenting the wind,” John Virgil acknowledged. “Only—”


Chapter 9