Every crime he committed, he called victimless. He was wrong.

South Africa, 1982.

Young, ambitious, and gifted in the world of diamonds, Jacques van Heerden is drawn into an international network of opportunity, smuggling, intelligence operatives, and dangerous men. At first, he convinces himself that no one is really getting hurt.

But as apartheid-era South Africa grows increasingly volatile, each compromise takes Jacques deeper into a world he never intended to enter. Behind the diamonds and ambition lies a very different dream: a life in nature, studying birds and plants as a self-proclaimed “wannabe naturalist.”

Getting out, however, may prove harder than getting in.

Diamonds and Destiny is a coming-of-age historical adventure spanning South Africa, Israel, and Europe—a story of friendship, ambition, moral compromise, and one young man's struggle to decide who he wants to become.

Book One of The Wild Diamond Chronicles.