UNHOLY DESIRE
Chapter One
Ezra
The plane’s speaker crackled to life, announcing our descent into Philadelphia’s airport.
The woman in the cramped seat beside me shifted awake, rousing another waft of strongly-scented rose perfume to clog my throat. Grimacing, I blinked at the sand in my eyes, my focus coming to rest on my worn loafers cramped beneath the seat in front of me.
No matter my exhaustion from the twenty-plus hour flight to the States from the Ukraine, adrenaline had kept me wide awake.
I would touch American soil for the first time in fifteen years. I would get to sit in church and rest, to soak in sermons I hadn’t studied to preach. I would see the people I’d left behind in my drive to fulfill the Lord’s calling on my life and serve Him.
I hadn’t meant to emotionally dis
