In the Gulf Financial Center, a cloud-based capital empire controls much of Southeast Asia's shipping and property. Its head, Adrian, is a mysterious figure who has skipped every matchmaking banquet for five years. Yet once a month he occupies a back pew at Saint Andrew's, a faded picture spread before him. The young man in the picture is blurred, and Adrian never allows anyone to handle it.
High society whispers that he is searching for a first love lost long ago, and socialites copy the young man's clothes in hopes of catching his eye. Adrian ignores all of it. Then someone appears who looks as if they stepped out of the photograph, and the question becomes whether a substitute can ever be enough.
