Echoes of Eternity – Paperback

She was taught that the man in that uniform was the enemy. He was trained to see her the same way. Then a single explosion changed everything.

Layla al-Malik is a young Palestinian woman in Gaza. She is seven years into a nursing education that war keeps interrupting, and grief has taught her to keep going no matter what the world takes. Avi Cohen is an Israeli soldier who once dreamed of becoming an architect and is struggling to stay a good man in a place that makes goodness nearly impossible. When a blast tears through a ruined street, Avi kneels in the rubble to save the wounded stranger in front of him. Moments later, when he is shot, Layla refuses to leave him behind.

What follows is a desperate journey through a shattered city: a broken old carpenter who gives them everything he has left, a clinic that hides a betrayal, and a hidden community of survivors that shelters them when no one else will. Bound by survival, and then by something deeper, Layla and Avi must face the suspicion of both their peoples, the scrutiny of a system never designed for them, and the hardest question of all: can love built in a war survive the peace that follows?

Spanning nearly three decades, Echoes of Eternity is a sweeping, heartbreaking and hopeful novel about courage, grief and kindness, and about the people who choose to build something lasting in the ruins.