At age 54, Yana Pickering is comfortably and firmly rooted in Seattle.
On the other side of the world, Elias is neither comfortable nor rooted.
His once-secure life as head of surgery at a major Aleppo hospital has been destroyed by the Syrian conflict.
Now he's on a desperate quest to locate his son and daughter-all that's left of his family.
The thread that draws these two together forms an engrossing story that spans Seattle, Beirut, Syria, and France.
Yana finds herself on a person.