When Atonement Could Not Save Her

After Ian Payne leaves his adopted sister Sophie Carter to perish in a Middle Eastern battlefield, she survives years of brutal captivity with lasting wounds and terminal bone cancer. Manipulated by his ambitious fiancée Olivia Young, Ian rejects Sophie again and again after her return, only learning the truth after she dies. Crushed by guilt, he trades away his own existence to give Sophie another life and restore her to her birth parents.