This is Sheldon at his best. The story of the Jaime McGregor, a poor Irishman who set sailed for South Africa to make a fortune with diamonds. After being hustled, swindled, almost killed and left for dead he returns as a ghost settling old scores and making his fortune as a diamond merchant. However, that quest doesn't come without consequences of his actions, such as a wife from his enemy and a son that can't survive his ambition. A stroke takes him out, but his wife continues his legacy as she's conceived Kate, Jaime's daughter he'd never grow to see.

Kate is just like her father, ambitious to a fault and will get what she wants by any means necessary. Like her father her quest to keep the next generation in the company tears the family asunder, leaving her in the end without any good prospects for an appropriate heir. Her meddling not only destroys her immediate family, but theirs as well.

This is a roller coaster clusterfuck of first world problems only rich people have, but a guilty pleasure.