The Calling — Jerry B. Jenkins

The 2:00 A.M. call from her fiancé, Jim, sets Jennifer onto a story that almost ends in disaster. Natalia and Sergei are alone in a strange country they have chosen to call their own. But the young Russian defectors turn up missing, and, when found, demand that Chicago Day columnist Jennifer Grey be at all their meetings with the authorities. Will they be spirited back to Russia? Will the tension between Jennifer and Jim ever resolve?