New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author
Winner of the Florida Book Award
Winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Medal
Torn between two cultures . . . allegiance to two families . . . a child
in the middle
Nicole Nelson and Ahmed Masud are a dynamic, highly successful
Philadelphia couple. They are partners in a thriving plastic surgery
practice, are very much in love, and they adore their young son, Alex.
But cracks are beginning to appear in their fairy-tale life: lingering
post-9/11 prejudice against Arab men, accumulating malpractice lawsuits
for Ahmed, and most recently, pressure from Ahmed's wealthy family in
Cairo for him to return to Egypt--permanently--with his son.
The Masud family pressure becomes a demand as the Hosni Mubarak regime
is seriously threatened by protestors in Egypt. Ahmed's family owes
their control of the Egyptian cotton empire directly to Mubarak
cronyism. If Mubarak goes down, the Masuds will surely lose their
wealth, maybe even their lives. They need Ahmed back in Egypt to
implement their plan to move their fortune and family out of Egypt and
into South America.
Ahmed must make a decision--stay with Nicole in America--or obey his
father. And what about their son?
Tragic consequences, which Ahmed could have never foreseen, propel both
the Masud family and Nelson family on a path toward unspeakable tragedy.
"Brave, Unflinching Suspense--Elegant, Intelligent, and Superb . . ."
--Lee Child, New York Times best-selling author
