".... As wife to the new Diplomacy Emissary in Washington DC, Amanda Wells gets to enjoy the Nation's Capital and all its delights while revisiting the sites of her childhood... Amanda is thrilled to be of service to a Senator on the Hill... But she discovers that in designing a new financial framework, an older truth must be unearthed, one built in stone and sacrifice by colonial venturers trading in waters off the shores of the old world, ...and she must shelter a fugitive This is Amanda Wells at her finest...