Carolyn Baugh Books in Order

An American student studying Arabic in Cairo learns from women across generations in the Garden City district. Their accounts of marriage, secret love, grief, and independence reveal tensions between personal hopes and deeply rooted social expectations.

Philadelphia officer Nora Khalil balances police work with her Egyptian-American family's expectations. A mutilated body draws her into an investigation where cultural knowledge and professional training must determine whether the killing conceals something beyond gang violence.

Assigned to the FBI office in Erie, Pennsylvania, Nora Khalil struggles to adjust to a new community. A series of violent attacks by domestic terrorists turns the town into a national flashpoint and tests her resolve.