BY HER OWN HAND

<p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Madeline Crowne escapes a violent home discovers love for the first time but war and betrayal threaten to destroy it.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seeking a world away from abuse she joins the army.  Her first deployment is Afghanistan.  Initially a hero she is later accused of a war crime she did not commit.  On the run near death she is saved by a woman named Mira a survivor of the civil wars of Lebanon.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shared sorrows seem to form a perfect friendship but in time desire and deceit cast shadows.  Mira is an illegal arms dealer drawing Madeline into an underworld as a means of seduction.    </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In another part of the Afghan war Eliot Lange is accused of desertion as he tried to save a comrade.  Panicked he flees to America.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Madeline sees through Mira's duplicity rejects her advances and finds a way home.  Madeline and Eliot's paths intersect in their native Sacramento where they fall in love but the FBI is pursuing them.  And Eliot is holding back a fearful secret for he has a distant connection to Mira.  Before he can confess the FBI is closing in.  Mira finds them first.  Spurned jealous she has a plan for a perfect revenge.      </span></p><p></p>