Gifted Heart

In 1947, Ray Petriani flees Texas in the middle of the night with a wife and young family. Desperate for work, he takes a job in California and is sent to inland China on a business venture. A gift exchange with the local potentate gives him two things he doesn't want, things he cannot reject, and things he is forced to protect. Those gifts transform his life. His research of the first item, a gilded antique music box said to have belonged to a Chinese Emperor, only uncovers additional shrouded