Dara Harow, daugh­ter of a rock­et physi­cist for the US depart­ment of defense, sends her par­ents into a tail­spin of dual-loy­al­ty anx­i­ety when she plans to wed Roni Ben-Ari, an Israeli offi­cer in an elite counter-ter­ror­ist unit. When the Harows are tar­get­ed by a ter­ror cell in hot pur­suit of tech­nol­o­gy not yet found in any coun­try’s arse­nal, Dara finds her­self at the cen­ter of a hier­ar­chy of ter­ror that threat­ens her life and the lives of those she loves. It is a time­less love sto­ry, set main­ly in Israel, of Dara and Roni, a feisty Amer­i­can stu­dent and a bril­liant Israeli com­man­do, against the back­drop of glob­al ter­ror involv­ing the infil­tra­tion of the US’s defense stra­tum and a dou­ble homi­cide on Amer­i­can soil. The Gilboa Iris con­veys how the casu­al­ties of ter­ror attacks and wars are not only those who die, but those who sur­vive them, and those that are left behind.

The book merges wit, intrigue, romance, heart­break and the tri­umph of the human spir­it, telling not only Dara and Roni’s sto­ry, but the sto­ry of the Jew­ish peo­ple and the land of Israel.