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Reflections of the Traveler: A Journey to Love
A contemporary coming-of-age travel-adventure romance novel with a touch of humor and what seems like magic!
A college-bound Boston writer, Peter, thinks he has a handle on his father’s untimely death, but he just can’t face his last high school summer stuck with summer school, work, and no break. And in writing class, he’s assigned a mysterious black textbook – with no text! ...Or is it? Be careful what you write into that window to your soul for it is you - as yet a story unwritten. For as he expresses his own Darkness therein, he summons that which took his father and now stalks him.
Enter the perfect girl-next-door, Misty River – a West Coast breath of fresh air who brings him out of the Darkness, only to suddenly leave – without even a goodbye.
With his last summer hope ruined – just her far-off tropical vacation address and his quest on a journey across the West to reach it – are his only keys to salvation. But could a runaway road trip to adventure and summer beach romance lead him from his dark urban funk to capability and self-confidence through experience? Or can it only lure him to his doom? Perhaps his mysterious black journal will guide him across the beautiful natural world now beckoning just over the horizon to his heart’s desire. For in his search for love, he must first find himself and where he belongs.
But would he dare escape to risk it all and hitch across the West on a wild quest to Hawaii to find his perfect first love in paradise to save him from the impending Darkness? The real question is… What wouldn’t he do?
In search of a girl, he found where he belongs.
A new type of novel! This ebook contains hyperlinks to 260 color photo-illustrations (.jpg) and 10 original songs (.mp3), viewable by a right-click or 2 finger click (Mac) on the blue underlined links, if -
* your reader has internet access (barring unforeseen problems),
* at least a year after my last book sale, or longer if book sales continue to exceed my website costs.
* Note some Kindle readers display only black-and-white photos and can't play sound, but you can still see them in color and hear the songs on a smart phone, tablet, or computer if you can download the Kindle app and load the ebook there.
* see also Notes in the first few pages of the book for further info.
For more info and about the sequel, "Reflections of The Riverman", see my website at - rivermanbook.com
Excerpt from the book -
“It seems so natural, yet profound, that two such unique character Rivers could join so effortlessly. It is here that the emerald waters of the beautiful, but disciplined, dam-fed Green River will begin to immediately and willingly intermingle along its meeting line with the wild tan naturally turbid Yampa having come in so great a distance from the east. Here at this sacred rendezvous, the two bound by fate – inexorably join until gradually further downstream, they at last became spiritually as one, yet still with the unique character of each. For once two rivers meet, despite turbulent times, there is no way back. They are forever imprinted, sweet scent infused upon the other.
At that moment, Peter’s eyes teared up, as he couldn’t help but deeply ache in his heart for Misty in Hana, where she perhaps was waiting for him even now."
A college-bound Boston writer, Peter, thinks he has a handle on his father’s untimely death, but he just can’t face his last high school summer stuck with summer school, work, and no break. And in writing class, he’s assigned a mysterious black textbook – with no text! ...Or is it? Be careful what you write into that window to your soul for it is you - as yet a story unwritten. For as he expresses his own Darkness therein, he summons that which took his father and now stalks him.
Enter the perfect girl-next-door, Misty River – a West Coast breath of fresh air who brings him out of the Darkness, only to suddenly leave – without even a goodbye.
With his last summer hope ruined – just her far-off tropical vacation address and his quest on a journey across the West to reach it – are his only keys to salvation. But could a runaway road trip to adventure and summer beach romance lead him from his dark urban funk to capability and self-confidence through experience? Or can it only lure him to his doom? Perhaps his mysterious black journal will guide him across the beautiful natural world now beckoning just over the horizon to his heart’s desire. For in his search for love, he must first find himself and where he belongs.
But would he dare escape to risk it all and hitch across the West on a wild quest to Hawaii to find his perfect first love in paradise to save him from the impending Darkness? The real question is… What wouldn’t he do?
In search of a girl, he found where he belongs.
A new type of novel! This ebook contains hyperlinks to 260 color photo-illustrations (.jpg) and 10 original songs (.mp3), viewable by a right-click or 2 finger click (Mac) on the blue underlined links, if -
* your reader has internet access (barring unforeseen problems),
* at least a year after my last book sale, or longer if book sales continue to exceed my website costs.
* Note some Kindle readers display only black-and-white photos and can't play sound, but you can still see them in color and hear the songs on a smart phone, tablet, or computer if you can download the Kindle app and load the ebook there.
* see also Notes in the first few pages of the book for further info.
For more info and about the sequel, "Reflections of The Riverman", see my website at - rivermanbook.com
Excerpt from the book -
“It seems so natural, yet profound, that two such unique character Rivers could join so effortlessly. It is here that the emerald waters of the beautiful, but disciplined, dam-fed Green River will begin to immediately and willingly intermingle along its meeting line with the wild tan naturally turbid Yampa having come in so great a distance from the east. Here at this sacred rendezvous, the two bound by fate – inexorably join until gradually further downstream, they at last became spiritually as one, yet still with the unique character of each. For once two rivers meet, despite turbulent times, there is no way back. They are forever imprinted, sweet scent infused upon the other.
At that moment, Peter’s eyes teared up, as he couldn’t help but deeply ache in his heart for Misty in Hana, where she perhaps was waiting for him even now."
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2024
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