When your father wants to kill you, life is frightening and tentative… “A cold shadow falls over my face. I open my eyes to see a vulture circling above me. Using my hand, I shade my eyes and see that another has joined it; both gliding on the warm air current as though conserving their strength for the kill that lies ahead… I believe that I am that kill…” Dr. Sonia Amon, battlefield surgeon, retired Army Major, and CIA operative is on leave from Walter Reed Army hospital. Married now to former CIA handler Jeff Hansen, she remains obsessed by the possibility her father Emir Faisal Muhammed is alive and not dead as the CIA presumes. To control her destiny she is determined to return to Syria to search for the Emir and her cruel stepsister Ester and end to her fears forever. A recurring illness takes her to Walter Reed where she learns of an unexpected, unplanned pregnancy. Sonia ignores the protests of her physicians and Jeff and with the help of the Agency, obtains Canadian passports and returns to Syria to search for her father and step-siblings. She leaves her gentle, long-suffering mother Melody, and beloved dog Tessa behind in the United States under the surveillance and protection of the CIA. Hatred, fear, death, and disaster await Sonia in Syria Syria, is a dangerous place for Sonia even though she speaks the language, knows the culture, and recognizes some of her enemies. They know I’m here. She feels the eyes and ears of others on her back. She senses their presence. Her enemies watch her day and night.