Green Fire

By Joy Smith

Love forces Victor Novak to acknowledge the man beneath the phony façade he has worn since puberty.

Marisol Garcia has more on her mind than a fling with a handsome stranger.

The greed for emeralds is a nasty business. Morals are corrupted; people die. When Victor Novak, a past-his-prime “lady’s companion,” learns he has a brother, a corrupt security guard at a private mine in Bogata, he seizes the opportunity to seek a more lucrative career in emeralds and flies to Colombia, South America for a visit. There, he meets Marisol Garcia, a single mother and talented botanist struggling to raise a teenage son and to save her family’s flower plantation from the man who murdered her father. When his brother talks him into partnering in a smuggling scheme involving Marisol’s prized lilies, Victor must choose between attaining his dream of wealth and privilege and the love he never thought he deserved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
• Release date: Mar 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781771272629

Joy Smith

I am Joy Smith a first time writer at 59 yrs old with no literature education in writing I spent seventeen months in mastering the creation of this book in the good lords year of 2021 among the complexations of nature. And in the ebullience of my lovely seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Cassey Aubrey Miley Ian and Odessa and three Egyptian Amani Nora and Humza. I have one son Dustin and one daughter Amanda I was born in Bristol Connecticut as a child the foundation of a good home wasn’t it was broken with hunger abuse and provety.I had to take on the responsibility of being a mother to myself. I was raised at the foothills of Tennessee surrounding the Cumberland gap and Middlesboro Ky and Virgina I moved to New Jersey for a while then Nashville TN at 40 in my career of operating two company’s designs of landscape also I have a horticulturist’s degree. And in the decision of redundancy of ending my career to raise my grandson Ian at three days old moved to Hamilton Oh on limited funds Ian is ten now and a author himself of a children’s book yet to be published. Also, I’m helping raising my Egyptian grandson Humza. My professional achievements include a seamstress at 13, a dietian assistance a carpenter at 15 helped build the first house in a sub vision the land remained with only one house I bought some land there and 20 years later my home was the second one built there then the land flourished and filled with many homes .I am an ancient writer the breast of a romantic poet, of a beautiful mind. My believe is to have faith in oneself and believe in what you are doing in life. My goal and dreams are tremendous my hearts passion is my babies and devotion to God My mind is a map of wealth yet to unfold in the future I am an inventor yet to be.