Character and integrity are at the heart of this high adventure story that spans some fifty years, beginning in Hawaii and traveling around the world with the six main characters. Their lives are woven together with the threads of life as each character experiences murder, intrigue, adventure and, ultimately, love. The characters grip you with their tragedies as well as their triumphs. It is a novel to be savored, a sit-by-the-fire and sip-coffee-kind of old-fashioned book, made all the more interesting by the fact that a great deal of it is true.