Jake Fortina

Jake Fortina can’t believe the news. Children—over 20,000 since February 2022—are disappearing as Russia invades Ukraine. Ukrainian Air Force Colonel Hennadiy Kovalenko and his wife, Mila, suffer heart-rending losses. Private Margarita Romanova, a medic in the Russian Army, faces a terrible dilemma, one that also holds the possibility of love and redemption. And in the background, Sergiy and Gleb, two young Ukrainian boys deported to Russia, must endure devastating and hellish circumstances. An unlikely confluence of Ukrainian, American, Italian, and Russian citizens unites to mount a rescue.

A dead-of-night raid on a historic Roman church unleashes a global nightmare. An elite mercenary team hasn't just stolen three priceless Caravaggio masterpieces—they’ve fired the opening salvo in a ruthless Russian oligarch's plot to overthrow the Kremlin and plunge the world into chaos. Newly assigned to the U. S. Embassy in Rome, Army Lieutenant Colonel Jake Fortina is thrust into a frantic international manhunt.