Sanctuary

Fiction & Literature, Historical
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Author: N.E. Julian ISBN: 9781440133107
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: June 22, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: N.E. Julian
ISBN: 9781440133107
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: June 22, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Nineteen-year-old Lea Kostovic, a cynical and emotionally fragile former university student, has been abandoned by her family at the outset of a Balkan civil war during the late 1990s. Major Ed Russell is a gruff yet idealistic divorced American army officer stationed in the former Yugoslavia on a peacekeeping mission. While manning a border checkpoint, Russell learns that Lea intends to head south to find her family and must convey to the young woman that the borders will not reopen until spring. Lea realizes that as a person of Croatian descent, neither the Serbs nor the Muslims will take her in. The thought of roaming the countryside for monthsfreezing, starving, and aloneprods a wary Lea to accept Russells offer not only to work for him as an interpreter, but also to stay with him. Theres just one condition to their simple bargainLea must trade sex for protection and survival. A complex relationship ensues and as Russell and fledgling artist Lea begin a new life in America, they attempt to build a marriage from a barter that originally had nothing to do with love and respect.

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Nineteen-year-old Lea Kostovic, a cynical and emotionally fragile former university student, has been abandoned by her family at the outset of a Balkan civil war during the late 1990s. Major Ed Russell is a gruff yet idealistic divorced American army officer stationed in the former Yugoslavia on a peacekeeping mission. While manning a border checkpoint, Russell learns that Lea intends to head south to find her family and must convey to the young woman that the borders will not reopen until spring. Lea realizes that as a person of Croatian descent, neither the Serbs nor the Muslims will take her in. The thought of roaming the countryside for monthsfreezing, starving, and aloneprods a wary Lea to accept Russells offer not only to work for him as an interpreter, but also to stay with him. Theres just one condition to their simple bargainLea must trade sex for protection and survival. A complex relationship ensues and as Russell and fledgling artist Lea begin a new life in America, they attempt to build a marriage from a barter that originally had nothing to do with love and respect.

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