Books by Andrea Busfield

Fierce snowstorms have battered Upper Austria, paralysing the region in the grip of an early and unforgiving winter. Nine-year-old Traudi wakes up to find she's alone in the house. Cut off from the nearby hamlet of Hallstatt, she senses something is wrong. Then, when daylight fades and she catches sight of blood stains on the snow, she realises she may not be as alone as she had previously thought. As Traudi prays for her family's return, the local mountain rescue team receive an emergency call. Leo Hirsch, the group's leader, is battling a loss of his own and finds the mission a welcome distraction, little knowing that this rescue will turn out to be like nothing he has encountered before. From the critically acclaimed author of Born Under a Million Shadows and Aphrodite's War, this haunting thriller charts the frozen rivers of the mountains as they deliver up the mysteries of the past. * * * Andrea Busfield was born in Warrington, England, and worked for UK national newspapers for 15 years before leaving for Afghanistan where she worked as a civilian editor for a NATO hearts-and-minds publication. Whilst in Kabul, she wrote her first novel, Born Under a Million Shadows, which was published in 2009 by Transworld and sold to 18 territories. Her second novel, Aphrodite's War, was published a year later, also by Transworld, and sold to five territories. She currently lives in Cyprus with five rescue dogs and a horse.

Cyprus, 1955 - a guerrilla war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and sniper fire. Determined to avenge the death of his elder brother and to win the heart of his beloved Praxi, young Loukis joins a cell of schoolboy terrorists operating in the mountains.

In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence.

"Jeg hedder Fawad, og min mor siger, at jeg blev født i skyggen af Taleban."Fawad er elleve år, nysgerrig, intelligent og fuld af glæde over livet, selvom han har oplevet flere sorger end de fleste: hans far og bror er blevet slået ihjel, hans søster er blevet bortført, og sammen med sin mor lever han fra hånden i munden hos mosteren og hendes familie. Men da moren får arbejde som husholderske for den karismatiske, vestlige hjælpearbejder Georgie og hendes to bofæller, ser det ud, som om lykken vender for dem. Men Georgie er forelsket i den berygtede, afghanske krigsherre, Hadji Khan, og selvom kærligheden tilsyneladende kan bevæge også den mægtigste mand, er end ikke Hadji Khan magtfuld nok til at forhindre en ny tragedie i den unge drengs liv.