Former Middle East journalist Jennifer Steil will talk about her new novel, “The Ambassador’s Wife,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 at Eagle Harbor Books.

This gripping tale of a free-wheeling artist who changed her lifestyle greatly when she married the British ambassador in a Middle Eastern nation becomes impossible to put down after she is kidnapped and disappears, leaving behind her husband and young daughter.

Steil currently lives in Bolivia, where her husband is the European Union ambassador.

“The Ambassador’s Wife” (Doubleday, 2015) has received the Best Novel award in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

Eagle Harbor Book Company is located at 157 Winslow Way East.

For more information, call 206-842-5332.