Daybreak

A Yael Ben-Ari Mossad Thriller

A Mossad Thriller Sapphic Espionage Psychological Suspense

Yael Ben-Ari is Mossad’s most dangerous weapon—and its most fragile.
Haunted by years of buried trauma, Yael is assigned to dismantle a brutal human-trafficking network operating out of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Partnered with Noa Halevi—a brilliant, compassionate operative whose steadiness masks quiet strength—Yael is forced back into the shadows she barely escaped as a teenager.

Their target is Malik Assad, a former Syrian intelligence officer turned trafficker. For Yael, the mission is deeply personal.

Assad was one of her captors during her own captivity years ago, a ghost she has spent her life trying to outrun. Now, posing as a wealthy married couple, Yael and Noa infiltrate Assad’s compound and come face-to-face with the horrors endured by the women trapped inside.

But human trafficking is only the surface.

As the investigation deepens, Yael and Noa uncover a far more devastating conspiracy: the trafficking network is a front for a bioweapons operation designed to poison Israel’s water infrastructure. With national security on the line, the mission becomes a race against time—one that pushes Yael’s discipline, sanity, and moral compass to the breaking point.

As repeated tests and forced intimacy strain their cover, the line between performance and reality blurs. Noa begins to fear that Yael’s thirst for revenge may destroy them both. When evidence suggests Mossad itself may be compromised, trust fractures—between partners, between agency and operative, and within Yael herself.

When their cover is blown, Yael’s restraint finally shatters in a violent reckoning with the man who broke her childhood. The cost is devastating. And the final truth—that the entire operation was orchestrated by Rina Halevi, the handler who molded Yael into a weapon—forces Yael to make an impossible choice: remain the tool she was engineered to be, or reclaim her own humanity.

In the aftermath, the trafficking ring is dismantled and the bioweapon threat neutralized—but survival comes with scars. As Yael begins the long process of healing, her bond with Noa transforms from professional partnership into something deeper, forged in trust, desire, and hard-won hope.

Relentless, intimate, and emotionally raw, this second installment in the Nightfall series delivers high-octane espionage, sapphic tension, and a haunting exploration of trauma, loyalty, and love in the shadows.

This book contains explicit sexual content, violence, and morally gray characters who make very bad decisions for very good reasons