The Stone

Pregnant and alone, 26 year old Dahlia Reynolds recounts the
events that led to her imprisonment in Thailand, an unlikely place
for a Sista from Waycross, Georgia. Nervously awaiting the ultimate
punishment, Dahlia realizes how far she is from Washington, DC,
her best friends, Stacy and El, her job as a Pentagon analyst and
from Antoine Blackwell, her occasional lover. This could be the end
of a journey full of treachery and deceit launched by a mystery from
her family's past and a quilt she inherited from a slave ancestor, all
started with a chance encounter with a much older man.

Mackenzie Powell stole Dahlia's heart and holds the key to a
treasure that made her an unknowing pawn in a high stakes game
of murder and intrigue that began deep inside a South African mine
before she was born. Dahlia was swept away by the Bentley driving
Mackenzie's classy good looks and debonair charm, but "Mac" has
a secret and only The Stone has the power to unlock it and make
sense of what appears to be a series of unrelated events. She
wonders: Is Mac hero or villain?