The Sound of Blue: A Novel

Sara Foster has left America for the adventure of a lifetimeteaching English to the sons and daughters of statesmen in Hungarybut her idyllic adventure instead reveals a dark world of pain and redemption when she ends up teaching in a refugee camp. Sara discovers that one of her students is a celebrated composer and soon finds herself crossing the border to his war-torn homeland, determined to exonerate him for the death of his brother.

In a journey that takes her to Dubrovnik, a magnificent stone city on the Croatian Riviera, Sara contemplates her own identity, struggling to understand why the regions ancient and extraordinary beauty belies a history of grief. As Sara unveils the secret of the composers escape, "The Sound of Blue" reveals poignant truths about the quests for refuge we all pursue.