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

With that, he went into the house and slammed the door.


For a while, the two women just stood there dumbfounded, and Jade could hear Paris say to Alicia, “You know, ever since I came to work for Se?or Rodriguez, I, like everyone else, wondered if the rumors were true: If John Virgil, Jade’s daddy, were really Se?or’s son—or Monsieur’s child, as Se?or always maintained. You know, honey, that Monsieur and John Virgil’s mother were once lovers.”


“But that would make Jade’s parents half-siblings,” Alicia said, a shudder in her voice.


“I know,” Paris said. “It’s too disgusting to think about. But then, like most people in these parts, I never thought it was true.


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