Desert Sunrises ✓

~Completed~Ilana Bodnar knew Ari Levinson was going to break her heart. They grew up together, in a small suburb outside of NYC, two of the few Jewish kids in their school. It was inevitable that they would end up together. But as soon as he turned 18 and they had graduated, he was gone, back to Israel and out of reach from her. She wouldn't see him again for 10 years, when her parents' deaths brings him home. They have one last week together as he helps her close up her parents' place and mourn her loss, before he was back to Israel.

But she wasn't going to let him go again and she follows him to Israel. And there she sees him with a wife and baby and she's ready to return home with her tail between her legs. But she's stopped by Ethan Levin, Ari's boss at Mossad, with an interesting offer, a chance, to help her people. So she packs up her life and moves to Israel, renouncing her American citizenship and becoming an Israeli citizen. From there she spends the next 6 years climbing the ladder to being one of the best agents Mossad has ever seen.

When Ethan comes to her once more about a team he's assembling for a mission to get Ethiopian Jews away from the genocide ravaging their country and back to their promised home in Israel. When she finds out Ari is heading the team she is hesitant but Ethan convinced her to give it a shot and meet the rest of the team. How will it be when she sees Ari again? Will they be able to set their shared pasts behind them or will they blow their cover and potentially get themselves and the others killed?