The Lovers of 9/11

AFTER A DISASTROUS ROMANTIC ADVENTURE, A MUSLIM WOMAN IS SUCKED INTO A FUNDAMENTALIST CULT
Daniel de Vries’ unorthodox opinions endanger his university position in Amsterdam as well as his unsatisfying relationship with psychologist Evelyn. When enticing Lebanese-American journalist Nadia Iskander hooks up with him online, mutual attraction is instantaneous. Nadia calls him to Beirut, where she is juggling her journalistic assignment and pressure from her controlling relatives. Daniel and Nadia live a passionate affair, until her cousins seize her from him. Days later, when they meet again in a world shocked by the images of the burning Twin Towers of 9/11, she seems transformed and, zombie-eyed, sends him away, leaving Daniel desolate. Will he ever find her again – and if so, can he bring back the intense and lovely persona she was?

A LETHAL LOVE TRIANGLE THAT MAY DECIDE THE FUTURE OF ISLAM AND THE WEST
Agnostic researcher meets devout Muslima meets hell-bent cult leader. From his stronghold comes an act of terror meant to transform a continent.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you found the woman of your life, only for her to slip through your hands and disappear from the face of the earth? And how would you react if ten years later you found her again – a member of a fanatical sect? This is what happened to peaceable Dutch Middle East expert Daniel de Vries and threw him into the deepest crisis of his life.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you finally found the man of your life but were so torn between the lure of modern life and the puritanical claims imposed by your faith that, to escape the pain, you saw no way out but to burn what you had loved, and to embrace what you had burned? What if one day your forbidden lover reappeared – inside the walls of the fortress where at last you had found peace? It happened to smart and beautiful Nadia Iskander, when the leader of the Islamist sect that had offered her refuge ordered her to shed her veils and employ her charms to convert Daniel.

ENSCONCED IN HIS CASTLE, Noureddin Malik, the charismatic paraplegic who was miraculously healed to become “amir” of the Army of God, leads his followers on an austere but pacific path away from a corrupt world. But as Muslim-hating racists close in ever more on Europe’s Muslims, extremists within his cult start demanding action. Which direction will the hypnotic leader choose, now that the way of withdrawal no longer seems viable? Noureddin, Light of Faith, feels commanded to wage violent jihad against infidels. But why does he need Daniel? And what happens when Noureddin's lust reawakens – and focuses on Nadia? What if, for her, “jihad” means something radically different than for him?

Each of these three harbors a secret – a deep wound – and is forced to choose between irreconcilable priorities. Nadia, Noureddin and Daniel must check their most sacred values against a reality they never imagined. Each must sacrifice what they hold dearest. Their choices will have dramatic consequences far beyond their own ken. Who will make the supreme offer?

MARTYR is a political romance series about courage in the face of overwhelming odds. At once cross-cultural tale of love and romance, political fiction, terrorism thriller, and psychological triangle with a paranormal tinge, “Martyr” is an epic that will transport you from Amsterdam and Brussels to Lebanon, and then to a secret forest location.

This six-book contemporary romantic suspense adventure series follows one arc of romantic adventure and political dilemma. Islam, it appears, can be understood in various ways. By turns tender and terrifying, Frank Emmanuel’s debut in fiction is not the work of a novice. This saga incorporates decades of research on extremism and fundamentalism. Himself the child of survivors of man’s inhumanity to man, Frank writes with his heart as much as with his pen. In the end, is this a message of hope? And is victory worth the price?