A Summer Smile

At twenty-one, Zilah Dabala has already survived a harrowing past. Now she is convinced she can handle anything on her own—even being held hostage by a terrorist group. But Daniel is determined to rescue her. Soon their escape ignites an intimacy neither has ever known.

Once Daniel learns Zilah's tragic secret, however, he fears she may be lost to him forever. He has defied death many times over—but can he teach a young woman the healing power of love?

Daniel Seifert has spent his life on the edge of danger, carrying out high-risk security missions across the globe. But it is more than adventure that compels him to tempt fate yet again—it's a young woman in a photograph, a woman whose warm, wise-beyond-her-years smile gives Daniel the inexplicable feeling that he has found something he has been searching for all along.