Shortly after her boyfriend, Peter, is deployed to Afghanistan, high school senior Michelle dies in a car crash and when her bereft twin, Kelsey, connects with Peter she is unable to tell him the truth as, through their separate woes, they support each other and begin to fall in love.

A sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana is imprisoned by the American authorities after being found in a bombed out school, but she will not tell them anything, even her name. The Taliban are not longer in power but the war is far from over.

Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela's father impulsively decides to start a new life in Kabul where Jameela ultimately becomes an orphan after being abandoned in a busy marketplace by her father and stepmother. With only the memory of her mother to sustain her, Jameela finds the strength to face those who abandoned her when fate brings them together again.

"It's 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy. In Kabul, 15-year-old Damsa runs away to avoid being forced into marriage by her family. She is found by a police officer named Shauzia, who takes her to Green Valley, a shelter and school for women and girls run by Parvana. It has been 20 years since Parvana and Shauzia...

In Afghanistan, Private Eli Recato is very good at finding IEDs and disabling them, a talent his fellow soldiers on the line appreciate--but when his convoy is attacked by three insurgents with sticky bombs he is separated from his vehicle and has to decide whether to trust an Afghan in the small house where he has taken shelter.

Private Matty Giaconne spends his days in Afghanistan disarming IEDs and making lists, like his list of top five close calls, and generally distracting himself from problems with his wife at home--but when an apparently routine search around Camp Loman leads to a firefight and a brush with death, Matty starts to reassess his priorities.

Lieutenant Commander Donovan has a chance to prove to himself and his elite SEAL team that he has what it takes to lead when their helicopter is shot down and some of his men captured by terrorists in the mountains of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

When his helicopter crashes in Kunar Province in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins is cut off from the forward base where the rest of his pararescue team is under fire--injured and captured by the Taliban Jenkins struggles to survive while the rest of his team sets out to find and rescue him.