Costa Mesa, CA: QWIP / Quality Words in Print, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a young English teacher in France who becomes involved in the lives of one of her students and his sister, children of a Muslim father killed in the Iraqui bombing of Tehran and a Jewish mother, nicknamed Ester, imprisoned in Iran for her provocative journalism. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-971316015.