La Azul Gitano, The Blue Gypsy. Synopsis La Azul Gitano, The Blue Gypsy, is a beautiful Caribbean pearl that has been in the Williams family for over 400 years since the sacking of Panama City in 1671. In that year, buccaneer Thomas Williams joined forces with infamous pirate Captain Henry Morgan and conspired to steal the city’s treasury of jewels, precious artifacts, silver and gold coin before it could be sent back to Spain. While fleeing with his Spanish-Incan wife Cataline to the Caribbean, he discovers she has stolen the pear-shaped pearl from the governor’s wife and takes it from her, casting her adrift when he hears of her mutinous plans of revenge. When he discovers she took it with her, he extracts his own revenge, and she dies violently for her efforts some years later. But by then a grandchild has been born to her and her legacy is passed down through her descendants. For 13 generations The Blue Gypsy travels with Captain Thomas Williams’ descendants, who revere and treasure the egg-sized pearl, believing it to have protective powers. However the bloody history in which it was acquired follows it, for Cataline’s family wish to extract their revenge. In 1974 they finally catch up with Thomas Williams’ heirs and it falls to Jack Colquhoun, 11th great-grandson of the buccaneer, his mother and pearl custodian Lala Colquhoun, longtime chum Spencer Duffy, and even Jack’s two grandfathers, to evade them. What ensues is not only a fight for possession of the pearl, but the very wealth and continuance of their family, for possession of the pearl has never been solely about its monetary value but the Williams family history and legacy as well. When Jack and Spencer arrive in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, Lala fills them in on the generations of family history, the plantations they’ve run and the various characters that have kept the family name going. She also tells them about the lawsuit she has been fighting over the claim on the family wealth. It soon becomes impressed on the boys the danger they find themselves in, as other unfortunate victims have been systematically killed in horrific ways when the lawsuit went sour for the claimants. As storms brew on St. Croix, Lala, Jack and Spencer are lashed by more than violent winds when they come face to face with the long-lost part of Cataline’s family, Antonia Toset and her crazed daughter Dolores. The women are armed and prepared to kill again unless Lala transfers her wealth to them, including the treasured Blue Gypsy. Lala discards the jewel in the sea to everyone’s horror, but is still forced to undertake a journey to all their safety deposit stores. As the contents of each box get deposited into Antonia’s possession in Geneva, Rome, Vienna and Lisbon, Jack and Spencer are kept hostage with Dolores, their very lives the ransom. When they reach Paris, Lala beats her empty deposit box into Antonia’s head, takes her captive and they travel back to St. Croix with the odds now swinging in Lala’s favor, although there is still the matter of dealing with Dolores. Antonia becomes depressed and takes her own life, leaving Lala without a bargaining chip. However Lala’s father and father-in-law, Jack’s two grandfathers, both turn up and help her overpower Dolores and rescue Jack and Spencer. Later Lala appears at dinner wearing The Blue Gypsy, revealing the pearl she had tossed into the sea was only a fake. Jack decides he wants to get to bottom of what makes the pearl seem to pulse with blue light, almost as if it had its own beating heart. Determined to get to the heart of the mystery, but anxious it could have the power to harm him, he has it x-rayed. This reveals a blue stone and fragment of pottery inside the mollusk that has etchings of Celtic origin, depicting Mother Goddess and the three phases of womanhood. Somehow this fragment had travelled to Santa Margarita in the Caribbean Sea and formed as part of the pearl. Lala, the current custodian of the Gypsy, is delighted by the news and over cigarettes and martinis, enjoying the Caribbean view, they realize there is more to The Blue Gypsy than they may ever know, or care to know, and that knowledge may yet be far beyond the borders of reason. However with Jack due to become a father soon, it’s apparent too that The Blue Gypsy will continue to travel with the Williams family for many generations to come.