Paula Favage is a beautiful, passionate woman who is trapped between two worlds--one in Afghanistan and the other in America--and torn between two men. A recent graduate from nursing school in Milwaukee, Paula, a young, sensuous, beautiful woman of strong will and unbreakable spirit, is restless and eager for adventure. She and her husband strike out for the Middle East, where she hopes to find a different life for the two of them--a renewed love for her husband and a renewed sense of being for herself.

What she finds instead is turmoil and upheaval as her husband abandons her for drugs and a life of debauchery in a faraway land. As the countryside around her is ripped apart by guerilla warfare, her devotion for her husband is challenged by a mysterious Afghan freedom fighter. Is he really her silent, mysterious beacon of light on a cold, foreboding night? Or is he the enemy she needs to escape to save herself and her sanity? This first book of an exotic new series is approximately 104,000 words in length, all of which build toward a remarkably unexpected, turbulent, and satisfying conclusion.