| ![]() | | 
2009 INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER
2008 WHITNEY AWARD FINALIST
THE RECKONING
Iraq is the center of a global, political maelstrom as the winds of war blow, and the arbitrary cruelty of henchmen and despots sweep through the lives of innocent people. This is the backdrop against which The Reckoning is set; a wrenching and provocative tale of one woman's homecoming gone very wrong.
Journalist Theresa Fuller has epilepsy, but this hasn't slowed her search for stories of injustice to broadcast to the world. When she and her cameraman, Peter Cranston, are captured inside Iraq in August 2002, and imprisoned by the Mukhabarat, Iraq's secret police, she is cut off from her medication. Seizures resume, and dreams and visions of her childhood in Baghdad begin to haunt her. Tormented by the relentless Colonel Badr, she is forced to focus on her own father's death, years before in a Baghdad prison. The strain of her own captivity, and torture, is relieved only by her growing attraction to Tariq al-Awali, the Iraqi captain who took charge of her capture. The more she learns of him and his family, the clearer her troubling dreams become, and the more puzzling her past. Before the American bombs begin to fall, and all of Iraq is thrown into even darker chaos, Theresa must find a way to escape the cruelty of Colonel Badr, and save those she cares for most.
A 2009 Indie Book Award Winner and a 2008 Whitney Awards Finalist, The Reckoning brings home the horrors of political injustice and the courage that it takes to resist despotism in all its forms. It shows what's possible when people are called upon to find the best in themselves during the darkest of times.
- SEE THE NEW BOOK TRAILER ON YOUTUBE
LAPS
(Not yet completed)
Daphne Lessing's life in Phoenix is mirrored by the laps she swims daily--routine, ordered, and entirely within the lane of her control--until the death of Guy Mercy, her most gifted writing student. The words of the poem he has left her are like a tidal wave, bringing her past roaring out of nowhere to wipe out the present she has so carefully structured as an accomplished author.
But Guy has left her far more than a poem. He has left her his half-brother, Eric--a precocious ten-year-old diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome--and an opportunity to try anew to form a bond with someone beyond herself.
|
|
|
Home
Books
Bio