"Will you choose freedom?" Daniel has saved Lieve but paid with his own freedom. He finds himself imprisoned in an isolated stronghold that houses something he never believed existed outside anti-Islamic propaganda: an extremist Muslim sect growing every day more anti-Western. By turns fearsome, chummy, or needy (but always argumentative), Noureddin, "amir" of God's Army, demands Daniel's conversion as the price of his life. Worse, so does his deepest love - the lost woman whom he finds back here. Nadia, now a devout believer, is tasked with a mission impossible - to save her unbeliever's soul. But Daniel soon learns that in the cult, nothing is what it seems to be. Will Daniel's beautiful jailer be equal to the burden that has been laid upon her shoulders? One day Nadia weaves a plan to let her prisoner escape. Noureddin, though, is evolving a very different plan. What will be Daniel's choice? A LETHAL LOVE TRIANGLE THAT MAY DECIDE THE FUTURE OF ISLAM AND THE WEST Agnostic researcher meets devout Muslima meets hell-bent cult leader. From his stronghold comes an act of terror meant to transform a continent. WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you finally found the woman of your life, only for her to slip through your hands and disappear from the face of the earth? And how would you react if ten years later you found her again - a member of a fanatical sect? This is what happened to peaceable Dutch Middle East expert Daniel de Vries and threw him into the deepest crisis of his life. WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you finally found the man of your life but were so torn between the lure of modern life and the puritanical claims imposed on Muslim women that, to escape the pain, you saw no way out but to burn what you had loved, and to embrace what you had burned? What if one ominous day your forbidden lover reappeared - inside the walls of the fortress where at last you had found peace? It happened to smart and beautiful Nadia Iskander, when the leader of the Islamist sect that had offered her refuge ordered her to shed her veils and employ her charms to convert Daniel. ENSCONCED IN HIS CASTLE, Noureddin Malik, the charismatic paraplegic who was miraculously healed to become "amir" of the Army of God, leads his followers on an austere but pacific path away from a corrupt world. But as Muslim-hating racists close in ever more on Europe's Muslims, extremists within his cult start demanding action. Which direction will the hypnotic leader choose now that the way of withdrawal no longer seems viable? Noureddin, Light of Faith, feels commanded to wage violent jihad against infidels. But why does he need Daniel? And what happens when Noureddin's sexual lust reawakens - and focuses on Nadia? What if, for her, "jihad" means something radically different than for him? Each of these three harbors a secret - a deep wound - and is forced to choose between irreconcilable priorities. Nadia, Noureddin and Daniel must check their most sacred values against a reality they never imagined. Each must sacrifice what they hold dearest. Their choices will have dramatic consequences far beyond their own ken. Who will make the supreme offer? MARTYR is a political romance series about courage in the face of overwhelming odds. At once cross-cultural tale of love and romance, political fiction, terrorism thriller, and psychological triangle with a paranormal tinge, "Martyr" is an epic that will transport you from Amsterdam and Brussels to Lebanon, and then to a secret forest location. This six-book contemporary romantic suspense adventure series follows the arc of romantic adventure and political dilemma. By turns tender and terrifying, Frank Emmanuel's debut in fiction is not the work of a novice. This saga incorporates decades of research on extremism and fundamentalism. Himself the child of survivors of man's inhumanity to man, Frank writes with his heart as much as with his pen. In the end, is this a message of hope? And is victory worth the price?