Nate ORiley, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and recovering alcoholic, must fight both a morally corrupt legal system and his own recurring addiction to find Rachel Lane, a young woman working as doctor deep in the Brazilian wetlands. Rachelhas inherited a multi-billion-dollar fortune, but with her other siblings clamoring for a piece of the pie, she unknowingly needs Nates help to fend them off. But Nates journey to Brazil becomes a greater, more dangerous adventure thanhe expected, eventually proving that he needs her help much more than she needs his. An independent, self-assured woman, Rachel opens Nates eyes to a world he had never known: a world devoid of corruption, money and liquor, and instead,filled with faith and spirituality. A Publishers Weekly best-seller for 31 weeks, THE TESTAMENT was the magazines longest-running fiction hardcover best-seller in 1999.