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

“What’s up?” he said, fighting for control.


“I think you better hear this,” Lleyton said. He aimed the remote at the TV, pumping up the volume.


“I’m Jackie Wyman,” an anorexic-looking reporter intoned in a lockjaw style as she stood in lower Manhattan. “Tonight: A tale of greed and corruption at one of New York’s biggest brokerage houses. Is the scandal at Brynner & Sons unique or just the tip of an iceberg about to sink the corporate Titanic? That story and more coming up on Action News.”


“Honestly, corporate iceberg. Talk about your mixed metaphors,” Belle said derisively. “Hey, isn’t that the company you were fired from?”


Chapter 43