Scorched is a powerful, beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother’s unspeakable pain. Simon and his twin sister Janine have been summoned to the notary’s office to hear the last will and testament of their mother, Nawal. Each is handed an envelope to deliver letters to a father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew existed. And so the mystery begins. These tasks lead them on a suspenseful journey to the heart of their mother’s war-torn Middle Eastern homeland. In this land, where civil war, massacre, and revenge constitute a way of life, the twins uncover shocking secrets about their mother’s concealed history as a political activist and prisoner of war and also about themselves and their origins.