Publisher's Synopsis
A young Geordie 'Jason Davidson' gets on his bike like the Tory government had told him to do, escaping the dying shipyards. He finds himself in the dirty and dangerous world of 'Oil - Black Gold'. Now with money in his pockets he marries his gold digging Geordie girlfriend. Betrayed by her lust for more, Jason sinks himself into his work and desperately tries to be better but can't compete with his wife's lover. Entering a world d of contract working, he decides to work for the highest bidder, an industrial mercenary in the wrong place at the wrong time, lighting a fuse that could haunt him. Emotionally damaged Jason forgets his pain of divorce in the beautiful and intelligent legal executive Hailey. Misunderstanding all signals in his failure to trust once again, Jason walks away from the woman he should have waited for, arresting part of him forever, a prostration he must recover from. Seduced by the unscrupulous 'Eamon Goldsmith', Jason Davidson finds himself heading up a company in Singapore where he meets the beautiful exotic Grace Kwon Lee. Grace the unloved daughter from a family escaping Hong Kong before the British handover to the Chinese, setting up in Singapore - but there is something else more sinister about the Lee family. Grace has never known tenderness. She is of mixed Asian blood and the product of an unsavoury secret, shunned by her father, secretly loved and raised by her aunt in return for his loyalty. The celestial clash of East and West brings love intothe life of Grace for only the second time, the first being her own kind, and ending in heartbreak. Grace and Jason's paths have crossed before, when they both were in different worlds, a scene that touches Grace deeply. In Singapore a chance meeting sees Jason and Grace Fall in love. Her life is wonderful now and she has never known such bliss, But the Tong Triad has other ideas that will test her love to the limit and haunt the unlucky Geordie, perhaps forever. Grace forced to marry a detes
