Come Back to Me

Tess Johnson seems to have everything: a loving marriage to photographer Beau, a thriving business, and the newly discovered joy of a pregnancy she is waiting for the right moment to share. That moment never comes. When Beau accepts an overseas assignment, his helicopter goes down in the Iraqi desert, and Tess is left to absorb the news that her husband is gone. Alone and pregnant, adrift in a life of collapsed plans, she struggles to rebuild while every day reminds her of what she has lost, and a new client appears offering more than just work. Far away, two Iraqi women fleeing honor killings discover Beau gravely injured in the sand and nurse him back to life in a makeshift shelter. As he bonds with them and their children, he becomes caught up in their perilous bid for freedom with the help of an underground network. Told across two worlds, one grieving and one fighting to survive, the novel follows a test of loyalty, endurance, and love that stretches between continents. It weaves suspense through an emotional story about holding on to hope when everything familiar has fallen away.