From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes the
stunning and emotional story of a young soldier’s
unthinkable act…and the bonds of a sister and brother’s
love.
Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers
when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph
returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later,
Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can
it be that her courageous big brother has been
dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty?
Aubrey can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good
reasons.
Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge,
Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth
and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either
of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about
their brother, important questions remain unanswered—why
did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family?
Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey
that results in a disastrous, and public, act of
rebellion.
The impact of Joseph’s fateful decision one night in
Baghdad will echo for years to come, with his siblings
caught between their love for him and the media’s
engulfing frenzy of judgment. Will their family ever make
their way back to each other and find a way to forgive?
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