Publisher's Synopsis
Elizabeth Chapman grieves over the loss of her relatives to countless military conflicts. She visits their grave sites year after year, never realizing that her husband's death in Afghanistan, where he single-handedly killed the son of the world's number one terrorist leader, has triggered an international jihad, one in which her own young son has become the target of revenge. Terrorism soon finds its way to the doorsteps of her English country estate. Her mother is killed, and her son is gravely injured, saved only by the heroic efforts of the responding police, and by Jack Lancaster, the hospital's trauma surgeon. But the terror mastermind doesn't stop there, as he is determined to take the child's life. He recruits the Viper, a well-known assassin sought by Interpol and governments across Europe and the Middle East for his headline-grabbing acts of terror. Accompanied by Jack, Elizabeth is instantly propelled into the heady world of international intrigue, as she fights to protect the life of her child. She is joined by the unlikeliest of allies, her lifelong, dearest friend from Scotland, Fiona Hunter. Elizabeth and Jack escape to the United States with the little boy, but they are being followed, and what soon transpires changes their lives forever. Jack is brutally attacked as he heroically acts to save the woman he has fallen in love with, and, once again, the life of her child.
