In this stand-alone story, Tom Frist brings together characters from his previous novels situated in Brazil, Nicaragua, Turkey, and the U.S. He weaves his own life and the lives of his character friends into an intriguing international adventure which features romance, family dilemmas, the pursuit of the Good, and the clash of religions-including a confrontation with ISIS. Readers will come away satisfied and enticed to read Tom's earlier novels, The Descendant, Through Fire and Water, and Can These Bones Live?

"As I walked the meditation path," Bishop Gregory said, "what kept coming to my mind was the name that you plan to give the organization that will run the camp and retreat center-'Shalom Place'. My suggestion, therefore, would be to name the path, 'The Way of Shalom'. As I see it, from birth until death, our lives are spent in search of Shalom-truth, peace, permanence, happiness, wholeness, and health."