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

He raced down the stairs in a terry-cloth robe, dripping water, to find her slumped on the stairs, the phone receiver pressed to her heart. 14


He stood halfway down the path that led to the manor house at Bethzatha. For a long while—or maybe it just seemed like a long while—he looked at the semicircular drive, lined with impatiens and whatever staffers could be spared from the inn for the brief ceremony. They flanked the steps of the porch on which Se?or sat like a Persian emperor with Paris to his left and Belle at his right.


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