title: The Gordian Knot
author: Holmes, Theresa
description: Andrea Zondervan Dixon, Sister of the Sword for the Villages of Tomorrow, has everything she ever thought she could want, a loving husband, two dear stepchildren and a baby on the way, and life in the love of her fellow Villagers. But she’s not happy and can’t figure out why—until her stepdaughter Tara asks what’s wrong and she discovers the buried memories of her long lost childhood friend Joshua have bubbled to the surface now that the mother who drowned him and his siblings has been released from a mental institution. As if dealing with her feelings about the tangled knot represented by the Yanktons, Joshua’s parents, weren’t bad enough, she must join the rest of the Sisters and Brothers of the Sword in finding a way to bring all the parties at war with each other in the Middle East to face the Sword of the Most High, Jim and Michelle Fitzgerald, before disaster can blow up Israel and the Arab nations surrounding her. Much to her surprise, she learns of hidden connections between the Yanktons and the on-going tangle in the Middle East. With a lot of help from the rulers in Iraq and the president of the United States, to say nothing of her friends and family within the Villages of Tomorrow, she and her beloved Harmon work on untangling the Gordian Knot. But can she persuade Mr. and Mrs. Yankton to choose life when they’d like nothing better than to die for their hardness of heart? And can she help Ahmed Hussein, the son of the ruler of Iraq, learn how to turn Islam inside out?