This novel is the story of friendship and war. They say all is fair in love and war, but when Huda is asked to spy on the wife of an embassy deputy ambassador, she’s terrified. Her childhood friend, Rania, meets the ambassador and his wife in a book store as she’s selling the last of her father’s books. It is 2002 in Baghdad and the worst is coming. This is the story of women and how they make it through.