Sinister Refuge: 1 (Boyd and Abboud Mysteries)

Rookie FBI agent Russell Boyd and Arabic interpreter Nawar Abboud have reasons for avoiding the Middle East but thats exactly where theyre going. A teenage girl has fallen to her death from an elegant condominium in Seattle leaving behind nothing to identify her except a pair of earrings. The jewelry connects her to Zaatari Camp a city of Syrian refugees in the northern desert of Jordan. Boyd and Abbouds assignment: Find out how this unknown and trafficked girl got from there to here.While Boyd and Abboud search for clues in Zaatari at another part of the camp fourteen-year-old Lely Khayat receives a visitor who promises a better life in America. Adventurous and artistic Lely cannot identify with the words orphan and refugee but each day she wakes up as a guest in another familys shelter. She decides to go.The chase is on-Boyd and Abboud pursue murderous traffickers to rescue a girl who has no idea what will be expected of her in America. Rick George is a master of the page-turner.