Its estimated value exceeded $11.8 billion.
Its chairwoman almost never appeared publicly.
No magazine cover.
No televised interviews.
No conference speeches.
Most photographs connected to her had been taken years earlier, before she inherited control of the company, and even those rarely circulated outside private financial circles.
Tonight, for the first time in nearly five years, Bellamy Holdings had announced that its chairwoman would attend a public event.
And Holloway Meridian Group desperately needed her.
Grant’s company appeared impressive from the outside.
Magazine profiles called it one of Florida’s fastest-growing development firms.
Grant spoke often about discipline, vision, and risk.
But Seraphina knew the numbers.
Five years earlier, Holloway Meridian had nearly collapsed beneath debt from two failed hotel projects.
Bellamy Holdings quietly refinanced the loans.
Three years later, another financing package rescued a medical-office development in Tampa.
Then came a $160 million credit facility.
Then bridge financing.
Then access to land.
