Amanda wants desperately to find someone she can love and who will love her in return. She felt so alone! For the last seven years working in an exclusive shoe factory, the last four as manager, caring for her dying father and studying, gave her little time for socializing. The factory closed and the day after her eighty five year old boss Mr Privet was mysteriously murdered! Amanda was accused but when new evidence came to light she was cleared. Is Mr Privett's assassin the same person who burnt her house down? Amanda's art showed promise in one of New York' s most prestigious Art Galleries. She goes to LA to sketch beach scenes for an exhibition. On the way she developes car troubles . A Good Samaritian ; a handsome lawyer called Jonathan invites her to stay at his beach house while her car is repaired. Amanda is attracted to him. Mr Privett's lawyers eventually find Amanda in LA. There is a big secret , with enormous wealth entrusted to her.But first she is required to solve a series of puzzles . Clues are left for her by Mr Privett in various note books. They involve World War 11 secrets about Nazi Gold when Mr Privett was in the CIA in Bosnia in 1990. Amanda makes a new friends, unfortunately some are fauve. Can she really trust them? There are betrayals, wild goose chases, and kidnappings and murders. The book of clues take heron a whirlwind trip from LA to Paris, London, to Berlin and the Caribbean. Is is like a mystery who done it? Her inheritance is a nightmare, will she survive? It is shocking how money will turn people into killers. There is Erotic sex, romance, mysteries that unfold little be little like layers of an onion.