"You have killed my only dream," she managed through clenched teeth. Reaching for the knife she had hidden beneath her cotton blouse, she grabbed it and ran toward the Taliban commander. Blue Ridge meets the Hindu Kush in a multicultural love story when Ron, a Green Beret medic, rescues Shararah, an Afghan nurse, from the Taliban and escapes through war-torn Afghanistan in Love in the House of War. Confronting the face of death, discover how true love conquers evil as the physical and spiritual worlds collide.