A sweeping, character-driven thriller told from a unique perspective and viewed through the prism of one woman’s life, PURSUIT OF THE CRESCENT MOON tells the story of American television journalist Eloise Chapel, who’s held captive for forty-seven days, only to escape and be pursued by her obsessive torturer across a treacherous foreign land.

With the help of a covert operative, Elle’s flight marches us through the back ways of a cruel country at war—encountering sympathizers and scoundrels, insurgents and gray figures between the hairsbreadth escapes along the way—while we travel deeper into her secret history, on an emotional journey presented in alternate chapters that’s crucial to the ever-escalating physical chase.

Through the unlikely convergence of lives at a dangerous time—the spy and the journalist—we explore themes of loss, the stakes of survival and the desire for truth in a troubled world, all as the plot plays upon the reader’s expectation of a thriller, then turns that expectation on its head when PURSUIT ticks to its wicked yet evocative conclusion.