One quiet morning, with her father still asleep, seventeen-year-old Sofia Mounir, disenfranchised with her life in London, boards a flight to Turkey.
By the time the police know she's missing, Sophia is already in Syria, ready to fight for the only cause she still believes in.
Her devastated father knows he must save her and will go to the end of the earth to bring her back.
But how do you rescue a daughter who doesn't want to be saved?
'An enthralling adventure-story peopled with memorable characters' Sunday Times
'Terrifying encounters with people-traffickers and violent jihadis pulse with tension. But the real achievement of the novel lies in the portrait of a naive young woman realizing that the pure religious caliphate she has committed to is a place of betrayal' Guardian