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

Vincent said he wanted to leave some souvenir of himself in the world. I leave you this as a souvenir of myself and that I loved you. Remember me.


“Remember me.” As if I could ever forget you,he thought. He buried his head in the letter, tears staining the note and the check. He would give many Vincents and many millions to have her back. But he also understood that having lost her in the world, he would have to find her within. And so he would surrender neither the Vincent nor the check, because they had been hers, and she would’ve been damned to let the bastards get their hands on either. Finally, he recognized what they were truly meant to be—a gift of time, an opportunity.


Everything tended toward leave-taking, it seemed. In May, work ended on Ground Zero, and it became what it had once been, what everything in New York becomes again—a construction site.


Chapter 29