House Arrest is the harrowing novel about Maggie Conover, a travel writer in a Caribbean island nation, who is placed under house arrest in her hotel after befriending the missing daughter of the nation's revolutionary leader. As Maggie is interrogated, bullied, and brought to a fever pitch of anxiety, she recalls her new friend's courage, her own troubled past, her longing for home, her daughter and family. Based on Mary Morris's own experience in Cuba, House Arrest is a story of both personal and political intrigue, as well as the meanings of freedom and its loss.