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Rebecca Burrell's writing sends the reader deep within a labyrinth of secrets and lies, exploring rarely-glimpsed settings and featuring characters who feel like friends and family from the first page turn.  Excerpts of her work are available on this site.

An Affair In Echoes (Completed) [Read Chapter 1]
Delaney Nichols is damn cold, stuck in a 1918 Petrograd breadline, and some freak in uniform just stole a stuffed monkey from the kid in front of her. A second ago, the Georgetown student was curled up in a modern-day Leningrad hotel room. When Delaney signed up for a missionary trip in the historic city, this wasn't what she had in mind. Seems her unexpected roommate, a troublesome ghost, had other ideas.

Not one to tolerate an injustice, Delaney steps out of line to defend the boy and winds up arrested. Her ration card is a phony, the kid has one too, and unless she leads her captors to the forger within twenty-four hours, they're both dead. She survives on her wits and a prayer until a man steals into her darkened cell to offer his help. A man from her own time - Jonas MacNeil, the troubled priest guiding her trip to Russia.

His side job as a Vatican spy nearly killed her the previous night, and the only apology he could muster was a vodka-soaked kiss. The ghost has been luring his family into saving that kid for three generations, and all they have to show for it is heartache and a body count. Jonas knows he won't find redemption in Delaney's arms, but he's looked everywhere else. Will his desperate pact with the ghost spare Delaney's life, or will it doom them both to share her fate?

Resurrecting Micah (Work in Progress) [Read Opening Scene]
Boston-based physician Micah Timmerman wants three things. She wants the kids who come to her West Bank clinic to stop pelting soldiers with rocks. She wants her husband, Nate, to stop worrying about her all the time. And more than anything, the former refugee wants to see life improve in the camps.

Today isn't Micah's day: A devoted Palestinian father takes his own life to save his injured son. Before he dies, he whispers three words in Micah's ear. Gdar aqbr Injeel. The Wall of the Gospel Tomb. The incident lands Micah on the radar of an Israeli security officer who believes she's become too cozy with the local population, restless and on the brink of another intifada. She arrives home late after a tense interrogation, covered in the father's blood, and determined to unravel his final secret.  When a bomb goes off hours later in Jerusalem, Micah fears her idealism led her astray - badly.

Three days later, Nate thinks she's dead, she's under detention by Shin Bet, and she's got a sneaking suspicion her recent bouts of nausea have nothing to do with the food. Micah has no intention of rotting in jail, so she strays from her oath to stay neutral in the conflict, infiltrates the camps as a spy, and tries to turn herself from pawn to powerbroker.  When her plan goes south, she turns to Nate.  Overcome with relief she's alive, he'll do anything to protect his family – except risk losing Micah twice.