An isolated incident (First edition)

Zari Zoon, a young and vivacious girl from Kashmir, is looking forward to a bright future when the raging conflict in the region reaches her family home.

In the space of a single evening Zari suffers immeasurable tragedy, and the next thing she knows she's alone and on a plane to America.

Her distant family relatives, the Nabis, offer her a temporary home and try to understand, but the horror of that evening continues to haunt Zari as she attempts to stitch back the tatters of her life in a strange new country. Billy Nabi, fiercely tender-hearted, longs to help Zari, but the choices he makes jeopardise them all ...