From Sun to Sun

From Sun to Sun is highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.

The
first set in modern New York City, featuring a hardworking
smart-mouthed Latina investigator, Felicity Ortega Pérez, specializing
in forensic accounting and document examination, as she hunts for a
missing person who holds the clue to an ancient mystery. Little does she
realize how deep the criminality goes and what she will learn about her
own hidden past.

The ancient section is a radical revision of the
Book of Ruth—the first person in the Bible to convert to the religion
of Israel. When Ruth’s husband dies under strange circumstances, she
must join the exiles returning to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple in
order to secure a future for herself, her grieving mother-in-law Naomi,
and her future offspring. Unfortunately, the returning exiles also
include religious leaders like Ezra and Nehemiah, who plan to “purify”
the land by expelling all the foreign women, and Ruth must prove her
worth under dire conditions, including a major famine.

From Sun to Sun is
a tale of love, devotion, and sacrifice depicting the challenges facing
two determined “foreign” women as they battle ignorance, hatred, and
indifference in two distinct historical periods—Iron Age Israel and the
modern world. Each in their own struggle to find justice and a place in
society—a seemingly endless battle in a time of social upheaval, fluid
identities, and diverse cross-cultural complexities.

In short, the
novel is about combating prejudice, and who gets to decide who is “one
of us” and who is a “foreigner,” and what it takes to prove you belong.