Publisher's Synopsis
Oil executive, Josie Stiles, is a modern American woman raised in a country of equal rights and opportunities for women. Kidnapped by a crazed Cadet Royal and taken to the Middle East. She is forced to endure humiliation, torture and deprivation, stripped of her naivety and exposed to the underbelly of a society bred to obey. Efforts to find Josie are diverted by political concerns and America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Lack of progress within the national and international law enforcement communities force her husband, Kevin, to sell their home & business and leave friends and family to find the woman he loves. Seeing in Josie the honor and courage usually attributed to men in their socially backward society, fellow captives, Rushd and Eli, flee with her in a desperate attempt to gain their freedom. Dependant on one another for survival, they fight illness, battle bandits and learn to trust one another. Fighting her way back to Texas, Josie is reunited with her husband, Kevin, only to be attacked by an assassin at the DFW Airport. In a final climactic moment Josie kills the female assassin, saves her husband and accepts the reality that living and loving are worth any price. Before the Airport Police and the FBI shut down the airport Josie and Rushd are forced to sever the bonds that were forged in battle and tempered in friendship, leaving each other to find happiness. Josie, to find peace with her family and Rushd to find true freedom. A sweeping tale of politics, slavery, torture and intrigue, this novel opens in the sub-culture of the oil field community in West Texas, and then takes the reader on a journey from the opulence of Saudi Arabian Royalty, to Sweden and back again to Texas.
