About the Novel:
A Moroccan journalist stumbles upon a story that can make or break her career . . . . . and her life.
Zakia Kamir gets a note from a former boyfriend about his suspicions regarding the company he works for, an oil and gas company in Rabat, Morocco. She doesn’t respond, because her long-distance marriage is already hanging on a thread. Not a week later, he is incinerated in a fracking incident, which may not be an accident.
Zakia suspects that the oil company is cutting shady deals with someone in the government, illegally seizing Bedouin water rights in order to expand their fracking operations. The closer Zakia gets to the truth, the more danger she encounters.
When she is finally accused of murdering a Scottish climate scientist in Iceland–who happens to be her long-time friend and mentor –she realizes she needs to uncover the truth about the conspiracy to save herself.