Pedaling After Ghosts

Hugh's father drank himself to death and left behind nothing worth keeping—except a faded logbook from 1979, a hand-drawn route map, and half a letter that ends mid-sentence. Now forty-two, freshly divorced, and teetering toward the same bottle that killed Roy, Hugh loads his dead father's steel touring bike and sets out to ride 1,700 miles down the Pacific coast in forty days. His estranged teenage daughter has promised to meet him at the Mexican border—if he makes it. But the logbook holds a secret that will crack open everything Hugh thought he knew about the man he never forgave.