During the summer of 2006, Melissa Hawach lived through every mother’s nightmare: her daughters, six-year-old Hannah and three-year-old Cedar, were kidnapped by their father and swept away to Lebanon in a desperate attempt to force a custody agreement. In this brave and gripping true-life account, Hawach narrates the extraordinary details of the kidnapping and the remarkable lengths to which she went in order to get her daughters back. From her home-turned-command-post in Calgary, to Sydney, Australia, to dangerous Hezbollah territory in Lebanon, Hawach and her hired security team plotted a reclamation strategy that relied on stop-watch execution, incredible amounts of cash—and luck. Flight of the Dragonfly is a book written with courage and candour, bravery and passion. It will resonate with any parent who has lost a child—if only for a moment.

MELISSA HAWACH lives with her daughters in the country outside Calgary where she continues to work on raising her girls and putting her life back together.

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