This work exudes the artistry of master storytelling. Using the history of Belize (British Honduras) as a fascinating backdrop, from its discovery by shipwrecked pirates (who never left), through the 1798 Battle of St. Georges Caye, to the hurricanes that wrought death and destruction, to the British colonialists who ruled the people, to the Belize-Guatemala Dispute, and through the era of national awareness to Belize's independence and neocolonialism to today's generation, John Alexander Watler tells an extraordinary story of six ordinary people caught up in various aspects of life: tender romance, passionate love, crime, corruption and struggle to make a dollar. After being away from Belize for over thirty years, Joseph "JC" Crane returns to open his own business and start a new life. He was fleeing from an unfaithful wife and had no intention of ever falling in love again. But he met Minerva Swift and she could change his mind. Minerva Swift was used and abused at the tender age of eighteen. Fifteen years later, having been leery of men and kept them at a distance, along came JC, and she finds herself falling in love involuntarily. Inspector Jake Vansen, a.k.a, De Fixer had a bright future ahead of him, one that could lead to the very top of his profession. But he killed an American by mistake, and then deliberately murdered his tavelling companion and his life could never be the same. Justo Martinez, a small-time hustler is called to the big time, but he must first succeed in a dangerous project: trans ship one hundred thousand pounds of Marijuana through Belize under the very nose of the law.