Amanda's job as a manager in a exclusive shoe factory ends when the factory closes. Her boss Mr Privet is murdered the day after. Is the assassin the same person who burnt her house down? She is held by the police under suspicion and released as new evidence comes to light. With no further ties to her town Amanda drives to LA to further her art career. Her art showed promise at a New York Art Gallery. Mr Privet's lawyers belatedly make contact with Amanda, and she finds out that Mr Privet left her a large fortune. There are instructions in a series of note books a quest . She must solve clues to a puzzle. Nazi gold is in the story when Mr Privet was in the CIA in Bosnia in 1990. "A who done it " The first clue in his LA apartment, it leads Amanda to his London apartment and there are more note books and more clues. On to Berlin. She is too rash and makes friends too easily. Suddenly her life is threatened. She suspects that some of her new found friends were also in the CIA and knew Mr Privet and they know about the fortune in gold. Who can she trust she feels so alone she wants to someone to love. Tricks are used. Amanda is the only one that can decipher the codes the only one with the specific information. Murders, kidnappings, erotic romance. A nail biting, crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. This physiological crime thriller mixed with romance, it will have you coming up for air. It is a new genre . Usually spy thrillers and romance novels. There is an unending array of deceitful faux friends who will do anything for money and especially gold.