To Fall for an Angel

Romania, 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen, but for seventeen-year-old Ashley Azaria, freedom remains out of reach. Separated from her brother and caught in the hands of a ruthless human trafficking network, Ashley has learned to survive on instinct alone — until a towering Israeli mercenary walks into a snow-bound tavern and changes everything.

Zorik Bar-Leiv came to Eastern Europe to settle a debt for the dead. He never planned to protect a porcelain-skinned girl with wandering eyes and a quiet courage that unsettles him more than any battlefield ever has. But when Ashley refuses to abandon him after he is nearly killed saving her, Zorik finds himself fighting not just for a mission — but for a reason to survive it.

Pursued across a frozen landscape by a South African smuggler, a KGB-trained sniper, and the mercenaries hunting them both, Ashley and Zorik must reach the safety of Western Europe before the armies of three nations close in. Their only allies are a Bedouin assassin carrying wounds that run deeper than her scars, a warm-hearted Russian farm girl with a talent for mayhem, a Canadian SEAL who joined the wrong navy on a drunken bet, and a private army of misfits willing to start a war for their friends.

Set against the chaotic final years of the Cold War — from the Romanian revolution to the missiles falling on Tel Aviv — To Fall for an Angel is a story about loyalty forged in extremity, love that arrives without warning, and the price ordinary people pay when the world comes apart at the seams.