He was supposed to be dead.
She was supposed to be the enemy.
But mercy had other plans.
When Navy pilot Lieutenant Lincoln Anderson is shot down over the Persian Gulf, he barely survives the fiery explosion—and a desperate swim through hostile waters. Wounded and out of options, he washes ashore on the coast of Iran.
Leila Samani, the estranged daughter of a powerful government official, is spending the weekend at her family’s seaside estate when she discovers the injured American on the beach. Against every instinct for self-preservation, she hides him—knowing that if the authorities find out, both of them could pay with their lives.
What begins as a fragile act of compassion becomes a race for survival through a nation on edge. As danger closes in, Lincoln and Leila are forced to trust each other more than reason allows—and somewhere between the lies, the loyalty, and the fire, something deeper begins to take root.
Two worlds. One escape. A connection that could cost them everything.
Paperback, 5" x 7", 204 pages.
