Forbidden passion, stolen emeralds and murder bring about the demise of a partnership formed in friendship and irrevocably alter the course of two families. The sins of their fathers will be visited on Leigh Shaunnessey and Girardo Castivenette in ways they cannot imagine. An electric saga that sweeps up from the hot jungles of Colombia into the glittering power centers of Washington and San Francisco, hurtling readers into the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century.