A story of noble intrigue, forbidden love, and a high-stakes legacy unfolds across two continents. 
A clash between business and romance is inevitable.

Pregnant with Amaya, the mother was banished to Mexico by a powerful Spanish Duke after the passionate affair. Years later, Amaya, a successful and independent widow with twin sons, lives in the Mexican desert when an unexpected and unexplained demand arrives from the father she has never met: her sons must be brought to Spain. 

The Duke, a high-ranking nobleman with no male heir, faces a crisis. He must bypass Spanish peerage laws to preserve his family dynasty, and the only way to do so is through the grandsons he never knew existed. Amaya’s defiant  independence complicates his plan to secure his legacy, her growing romance with a creative and savvy American businessman named Allan, and her mother's deep-seated resentment toward the Duke. 

As a battle of wills begins, the characters are forced to negotiate the terms of their new reality. Will this be an opportunity for bonding, cooperation, and forgiveness, or will old wounds lead to reticence, repulsion, and hate? This captivating series of stories intertwines historical narrative with real-life entrepreneurial tales, weaving a rich tapestry of romance, business, and family drama.

• Character: A pregnant mother was banished to Mexico by a Spanish Duke.
• Character: The Duke’s illegitimate daughter, Amaya, is a widow living in the Mexican
• desert with her twin sons.
• Character: The Duke, the father, is a high-ranking feudal Spanish nobleman with no male
• heir.
• Character: Amaya’s lover is a California entrepreneur and is involved in creative business
• dealings.

Setting: The story takes place in California, Mexico and Spain.

Plot Point: The Duke, without explanation, demands that Amaya and twin sons be brought to

Spain.

Motivation: The Duke wishes to befriend Amaya to preserve his family’s dynasty and must change his ways to thwart Spanish peerage rules. He has never spoken to or seen Amaya.

Conflict: The Duke's plans are complicated by Amaya's twin sons, her romantic attachment, and her mother’s aggressive resentment towards him.

Theme: The story involves noble intrigue, romance, entrepreneurial business, environmental disasters, and historical events.

Nature of the Story: It is a series of semi-fictional, historical stories where characters’s embellished tales reveal their natures and histories.

Central Question: The narrative explores whether the characters will find bonding, cooperation, and forgiveness, or if they will experience reticence, repulsion, and hate.

 

This is a story of a pregnant mother banished to Mexico by a Spanish Duke. As an adult, illegitimate daughter Amaya, is a widow living in the Mexican desert with twin sons when she gets a gets a demand notice from her natural father, who, without explanation, edicts that she and her sons be go to Spain. He claims to have changed his ways and befriended her to preserve his family’s dynasty.

The historical narrative of noble intrigue and romance overlays many eclectic real-life tales of entrepreneurial business dealings and environmental disasters.

Together, it is a series of semi-fictional verisimilar historical stories. Separate sections introduce characters and their experiences in different scenarios. The characters have embellished tales to tell that reveal their individual natures and histories. As their stories mesh and mature the characters become friends and more.

It has happened to many titled European nobles throughout the 20 th century. The Duke, a high-ranking Spanish nobleman with no male heir risks losing his family’s birthright dynasty to a clever commoner. The Duke has never spoken to, nor seen, his estranged daughter in Mexico..

She is young, freethinking, forthright, and independent. The Duke needs to change his ways and befriend her to be able to thwart Spanish peerage rules. The story involves the daughter’s lover and his creative business dealings and the events leading to their romance, and its difficulties.

 

The Duke’s plans are complicated by the daughter’s maturing twin boys, her romantic attachment, and her emotional mother who has very aggressive resentment towards the Duke.

Will there be bonding, cooperation, and forgiveness? Or reticence, repulsion, and hate?

It needs to be negotiated.

The Duke has an affair resulting in a baby; he exiles the mother to Mexico to have the child. The baby grows up to become a very talented Maria. The mother moves to Guadalajara and marries the Duke’s cousin.

The child Amaya, married moves to Mexicali and with her husband becomes very successful Duke has lost his wife and has no male heir secretly wishes to pass his noble title to his grandsons.

Allan is a successful businessman and acquires a golf course then meets Amaya instant affair but Amaya is dealing with the Duke who does not give his approval of the affair.