Love, passion, and danger collide in this engaging tale of two people separated by circumstance, but forever bound by fate.

Rose Gilchrist. The daughter of a wealthy Pennsylvanian mine owner, Rose has pledged to help the underprivileged of the third world. To do so, she volunteers as a doctor with Médicins Sans Frontières. Her journey will take her from the hills and jungles of Haiti to the perils of war-torn Rwanda. And it is in this African nation that she will discover the greatest love of her life.

David Fitzgerald. A former delinquent from the slums bordering the East River, David was given a choice between prison and enlisting. He joins the U.S. Marines and after three years of service, becomes a second lieutenant. David joins a secret international force of highly trained soldiers whose job is to rescue those brave doctors who find themselves caught up in civil wars around the globe, little knowing he will meet a woman who will change his life forever.

Brimming with vivid detail and emotional depth, Purity in a Dirty World plunders the depths of the human heart.