SAUDI Life is proud to announce the release of Umm Zakiyyah's latest novel Hearts We Lost. Umm Zakiyyah is internationally acclaimed author of the If I Should Speak trilogy and the novel Realities of Submission.

In this novel that spans the Atlantic, from Saudi Arabia to America, she shares with readers a heart-moving tale of faith, betrayal, and affection. Sharif, the main character of this novel, after completing his undergraduate studies in America, is asked by family and friends to leave the comfort of the land he has known since childhood to study at a prestigious Islamic university in Riyadh. Haunted by the sudden death of his father who would have wanted this opportunity for his son, Sharif reluctantly agrees to the proposition and to assuming the position as imam over the small suburban Maryland masjid where his father once held the same post. After his six-year study abroad, Sharif returns to America changed in ways he cannot fully comprehend. Now doubting his engagement to his childhood friend, Sharif is confounded by questions of marriage and how he should practice the Islamic faith. As he searches for answers to spiritual perplexities and the deeper affairs of the heart, he finds guidance in a vision he sees while asleep, a vision that is made all the more perplexing when it manifests itself in real life. 

Navigating the enigmatic world of dreams and the mystery of the human soul, Hearts We Lost is by far the author's most powerful novel to date, and the most unforgettable.

Read the first 35 pages here [pdf].

Title: Hearts We Lost
Genre: Religious Fiction/Spiritual Novel
ISBN: 978-0970766755
Specs: 5.5" x 8.5", 369 pages
Retail: $19.99 USD (paperback), $10.00 USD (eBook)

Umm Zakiyyah's books are available in Saudi Arabia via:

Abu Qasim Bookstore in Jeddah [email:  abulqasimbooks@hotmail.com store phone:  671 4793, mobile: 050 433 1535 (call mobile b/w 8 am - 4 pm, Sat-Wed only]

Jarir Bookstores

Online purchase:

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Author Bio:

Umm Zakiyyah was born in 1975 in Long Island, New York, to formerly Christian parents Clark and Delores Moore. That year, Clark and Delores converted to Islam and subsequently changed their names to Muhammad and Fareedah Siddeeq after spending years in the Nation of Islam under the late Elijah Muhammad.

Umm Zakiyyah spent most of her childhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she wrote articles for local newspapers and essays and poetry for college publications nationwide.  In college, as a student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she wrote editorials for the school’s newspaper and received various awards for her leadership and academic achievements.  In 1997, she graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education.

Umm Zakiyyah has appeared on radio and television in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.  She has been a guest lecturer at American conferences and youth events.  She is the recipient of the 2008 Muslim Girls Unity Conference Distinguished Authors Award.

Umm Zakiyyah is currently an American education consultant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

For more information about the author visit ummzakiyyah.com or themuslimauthor.com