Jennifer Carson is a physics graduate student who convinces a lab technician at her university, Hampton Wade, that she's from another dimension and needs his help to return. Jennifer is beautiful, but from another universe? Hampton is attracted enough to suspend his disbelief. But where will he get the diamonds needed to power her purported "transfer machine"?Seeking Diamonds, Hampton turns to Youkoumian, a self-styled Armenian who owns a diamond store on Philadelphia's Jeweler's Row. Hampton doesn't know that Youkoumian's jewelry store is also a hawala (a system for transferring money traditionally used in the Muslim world) for jihadist organizations. The store is being investigated by the United States for having black powder and sponsoring H1-B visas for couriers traveling to and from the Middle East.