The Reckoning

When an American journalist sneaks into Iraq before the invasion, she gets arrested and imprisoned by the secret police. Deprived of her epilepsy medication, she learns to rely on one of her captors. The closer they become, however, the more she realizes he's somehow connected to the death of her father years earlier in a Baghdad prison. Can she trust him to get her out before the bombs fall?

The Reckoning, by Tanya Parker Mills, tells the award-winning story of a journalist's journey gone terribly wrong. Through gritty, gut-wrenching prose, Mills masterfully weaves the real horrors of Saddam Hussein's Iraq with the rich threads of a compelling fictional narrative as raw and real as anything taken from today's political headlines. Told with tenacious honesty and unflinching realism, in a style sure to disturb and entertain, The Reckoning shows how we can transcend the past, no matter how painful or murky it may have been.

The Reckoning won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in 2009 for Multicultural Fiction and the 2010 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Award for Mainstream/Literary Fiction.