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

“Can you use an extra pair of hands?” he shouted.


How strange he must’ve seemed to those workers, with his uncluttered features and polished limbs, not to mention a woman’s scarf—pink, black and white with a rope pattern snaking through it—wound about his neck.


What had he hoped to find? Something of his office, something of himself, something that said that there had been such a place, that he had worked there, that it hadn’t been for nothing. Something.


Chapter 27