Shattered by the sudden loss of his wife, home, and business, once-successful advertising executive Alan Christoffersen embarks on a cross-country backpacking journey during which he meets people who help him to gain profound spiritual understandings.

Robert Harlan has three loves in his life: his wife, Allyson; his daughter, Carson; and his writing. When he is unexpectedly laid off from his job, his wife encourages him to pursue his dream of writing. He writes a novel entitled A perfect day, and it becomes a huge success. Robert finds himself swept into a new world far from his wife and his home. In time Robert loses track of the things he loves most--until he meets a stranger who tells him intimate...

Embarking on a walking tour from Seattle to Key West after the losses of his beloved wife and business, Alan Christoffersen meets a series of people on his journey who impart lessons in love, sacrifice, and forgiveness until a crisis in St. Louis threatens his healing progress.

After nearly two decades, Noel Post returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and...