Early Reviewers

A sudden summons to hometown Cleveland ruptures Sandra's Manhattan routine where she serves as inhouse counsel for a health insurer.

Sandra reluctantly agrees to spend ten days caring for her declining sister-in-law Janine while her brother conducts a prestigious reporting assignment of national consequence. Greg wouldn't reveal his overseas destination, so Sandra scours his home office for clues to the mystery. She discovers that he has been assiduously studying Arabic. With the third, awful anniversary imminent, she surmises that Greg's investigation involves the events of 9-11. Contrary to the boredom Sandra dreaded, she enjoys Janine's eclectic entourage.

But when Greg returns to Cleveland and shares confidential details, her inner world shatters. For nobody knows that sensible Sandra harbors an enchanted memory involving a certain Egyptian foreign student, whose reappearance couldn't possibly mean what Greg's notes prove. The Sandra who says adieu to Janine and returns to Manhattan is a transformed being - warmer, more exposed, easier for you the reader to like.