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Abbey's Search for Sanctuary Kindle Edition
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A Turkish-American nurse, Abbey shelters her younger sister after she divorces her Muslim husband when she learns his mother is going to perform a circumcision on their baby girl, Jenny. When her sister is murdered by her ex-husband, Abbey knows she must find a way to keep Jenny safe.
Once a Peshmerga fighter and medic with the Kurdish forces in Iraq, Rami now works with refugees in Buffalo. Shunned by his grandfather and family for failing to demand retribution when his arranged marriage failed, Rami avoids emotional attachments. That is, until he meets Abbey.
Warning Abbey that honor killings are often family affairs and that she and Jenny are in danger, Rami offers her a way out: a marriage of convenience and refuge in his homeland of Kurdistan.
Abbey is committed to doing anything to protect Jenny but can she face going back to the world of her childhood: a world of headscarves and submission, a world that scarred her mother and killed her sister, a world she’d already escaped once?
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 15, 2017
- File size1725 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B06XDSX195
- Publication date : March 15, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 1725 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 190 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,074,434 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #56,939 in Romantic Suspense (Kindle Store)
- #101,167 in Romantic Suspense (Books)
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About the author

Eris left Vermont to study nursing in Albany, New York where she met her future husband, a surgical intern from Istanbul, Turkey. Eris’ first publications were a biographical novel, Legacy of Change: The Saga of a Turkish Family from Empire to Republic, that she co-authored with her late husband and a textbook, Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing. Now, she writes what she loves to read--contemporary, cross cultural romances.
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Abbey grew up in Turkey and then came back to the United States with her mother and she has views of the Muslim religion and has vowed to never get involved with a Muslim man after seeing what both her mother and her sister have gone through.
But when she finds herself attrqcted to her new boss, Dr.Rami Rashid she soon learns that she must trust that he is different than other Muslim men and will protect her when it is clear that she is no longer safe.
Will Remi treat Abbey differently or is he just like every other Muslim man that she has come in contact with before?
This was a super interesting book on so many different levels and I really enjoyed learning about the cultural differences that the book talked about.
I really liked the character of Abbey and completely understood why she was so guarded. Yet she lumped all Muslim men into one pile but I did understand the reasons behind it. I was devastated to learn what Jeyda's husband wanted to do to their daughter, Jenny, and I think I would have run as well. Abbey was well educated and really wanted to help people and understood how many people out there need assistance with their mental health.
It was very difficult to read about what many women are subjected to in other cultures. Not every woman or man should be placed under the same "umbrella" but the information we learned in this book is so devastating to know that these types of things still happen. Sadly it does still happen in cultures and I have read about it locally.
I really liked Dr.Rami Rashid and right from the beginning I crossed my fingers that he was different and would treat Abbey properly. He was a very educated man who had been "burned" in love before and it was interesting to see how much status he lost from that and how it affected his family. Rami had a different approach to things and I loved how he was able to start over and how he protected Abbey when it was needed the most.
I can see that people may not want to read the book due to the cultural differences and subject that it talks about and that the book could offend some readers but I encourage the reader to give the book an honest try as the bottom line is love and giving someone a chance in spite of how we believe they will act.
There was a lot of history in this book, me being uneducated about it, I really thought it was interesting. Like another reviewer said, it really showed how different the middle eastern cultures are from each other, where we usually lump them together thinking they are all the same. I enjoyed this book and would definitely be interested in reading the rest of the trilogy to find out what happens with Abbey, Jenny, and Rami.
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At times I thought I was reading a cultural and geographical review on Trip Advisor, such was the amount of information the author imparted. However, I commend the writing style because this information added to, rather than inhibited, the narrative flow. It helped to create an undiscovered world for me as the reader; a world I want to know more about.
My only slight concern is that on occasions the dialogue reads/sounds like the speaker is reading from a pre-prepared text. Whilst it delivers welcome information for the reader, I wonder if the characters would speak that way, as educated as they clearly are.
That said, my concern is not enough for me to give this book anything other than 5*.