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New York TimesandUSA Todaybest-selling author

Gold Medal Winner in the Florida Book Awards for Popular Fiction

Silver Medal Winner in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for Thriller & Suspense

Torn between two culturesallegiance to two familiesa 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 Ahmeds wealthy family in Cairo for him to return to Egyptpermanentlywith his son.

The Masud family pressure becomes a demand as the Hosni Mubarak regime is seriously threatened by protestors in Egypt. Ahmeds 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 decisionstay 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 the Nelson family on a path toward unspeakable tragedy.

Brave, unflinching suspenseelegant, intelligent, and superb.Lee Child,New York Timesbest-selling author ofNo Middle NameandNight School

The tight suspense unfurls almost lyrically in this high-stakes tale of a mothers desperation. The lines between right and wrong and good and evil are smudged almost beyond recognition, but there's emotional clout that resonates, all leading to a provocative conclusion. A terrific story, told terrificallc"