Wealthy, powerful, Demetrius Annapolis life is about to drastically change in a way he never saw coming. A secret kept hidden for eight long years reveals a past hurled into the present. A secret that will open the past and make him face a painful part of his life he thought was over, one he could never forget... Successful but guilt ridden by her past, Melissa Kiffe must return back to the country she fled from eleven years ago, a place she thought never to see again, but fate had other plans. A secret she kept hidden for so long is exposed and the old wounds of her past come back to haunt her... In The Hands Of Fate is a book in which the characters are carried through acts of fate and swept away, as if caught in a tidal wave no one could have forseen. Despite the wealth and influence of the characters, the story will show readers that love is the key to happiness. It has nothing to do with the allure of money, or the materialistic things that money can buy. Witness the bond of love that holds Demetrius and Melissa together, as you are swept away by the choices they make, the fate they cannot control, and the journey that brings them closer to their destinies...