Trestle Glen, in Oakland, is one of the finest neighborhoods in California. It's close to the thriving shopping centers of Lakeshore Avenue and Grand Avenue, to schools, the freeway to San Francisco, and a quick escape from the city to the south or north. Trestle Glen has no crime ? unless you call a parking ticket a crime. Oakland's local and national reputation as the center of drug crimes curiously escapes the neighborhood of Trestle Glen. It's as if the criminals have made a pack not to steal from the rich, preferring their own poor neighborhoods in East and West Oakland, or perhaps they are caught in the spell of the elegance and serenity of Trestle Glen. With its immaculately trimmed lawns and perfectly painted two- & three-story mansions, Trestle Glen's beautiful homes winds around curvilinear streets, up and down gentle rolling outcrops that once formed the burial places of native Americans; Trestle Glen is a heart-beat away from Paradise. However, because there is no crime on the streets doesn't mean there's no crime behind those gilded front doors. With wealth comes envy, and in such a well-developed competitive society like ours, criminal activity is a prerequisite for a successful life. Into this world of repressed crimes steps our protagonist, Nathaniel Armstrong, a highly successful man who provides for his large family and lives in Trestle Glen. Because of his abundant wealth and success, he takes it upon himself to introduce a beautiful new young wife, younger even than his youngest daughter, into this family home. His wealth has blinded him to the storm he provokes, the details of which our story will now relate.