Beth Alderman

Pilgrim Minds Beth Alderman

It is 2050, and Melissa has gone to the hospice of her clinic to die in peace, and to entrust her son Aaron with her last wish: He is to go from their home in Iowa to the Salish Sea to ask her old friend Sarah for a legacy. Before she can explain, Melissa dies. Disturbed by the turn of events, Aaron rides out on horseback, taking a pilgrimage through a damaged landscape. In Denver, he agrees to take his niece Rafaela away from dangerous company. As they head west and get to know each other, Aaron becomes her surrogate father, and Rafaela becomes the daughter he never had.