He played deception like music, the way Miles played his horn. Every note moved her until she almost had no will of her own. 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?"""" | The Stone by Darryl A. Hines, Paperback | Indigo Chapters