Ashes and Light — Karen L. Abrahamson

Khadija Siddiqui seeks redemption when she returns to Afghanistan from London. At home she meets her father's friend, an American CIA operative, Michael Bellis. Michael might be the most dangerous man she has ever met, but also the most fascinating. He carries a horrible secret that devours him from within. Events draw Khadija into a web of lies and deceit that have repercussions for all Afghanistan. Lost in the stark northern mountains with her enemy, Michael, together they must struggle to cross the world's most unforgiving terrain carrying a message that might grant Khadija her redemption or that could ignite the entire world in war. Karen L. McKee takes the reader on a roller coaster of a read through the meeting place of war, faith and culture.