Part of Reader's Digest Condensed Books, along with Assegai, LA's Orchestra Saves The World and Envy The Night. This story is set in the coffee trade. Robert Wallis is a talented poet but always wastes his time. He is offered a job by a coffee merchant Pinker. Robert has to compose vocabulary for the smell and taste of coffee so that everyone could relate. He encounters Pinker's daughters and falls in love with one of them, Emily. He is sent far overseas to Africa to make his fortune in the coffee trade. There he becomes obsessed with a slave woman. He tries to free her but heartbreak and danger follow, which changes his life as well as Emily. Coffee is used as a metaphor for how we love and experience with all our senses. A love story written with Capella's engaging sensual descriptions. This is a 4-in-1 book.
