In a city of ghosts, a soldier and a doctor must carry the living.
When an ambush leaves Israeli Captain Maya Arad stranded in the ruins of Gaza, she is forced into an impossible pact with the one man she is trained to see as her enemy: Sami al-Masri, a Palestinian doctor haunted by the ghosts of his own.
Their mission is not one of war, but of impossible survival: to shepherd four orphaned children across fifty kilometers of a landscape where every shadow is a threat and every stranger is a potential executioner.
Hunted by militias who see them as traitors and soldiers who see them as targets, their journey becomes a relentless crucible, forging a bond so profound it threatens to shatter their worlds. But the war outside is nothing compared to the one brewing within, for one of the children carries a secret so devastating it could burn brighter than any bomb.
A relentless, soul-searing thriller, The Shrapnel Oath is not a story about the politics of war. It is a story about the brutal physics of hope, the terrible cost of keeping a promise, and the shocking discovery that in the heart of hell, the only thing left to believe in is the person you are supposed to hate.