the Long Summer On Amazon: A Coming-of-Age Novel of Love, Friendship, and Adventure in Peruvian Amazon

A summer in the Amazon was supposed to be an adventure. It becomes a journey that changes everything.After a year of hospitals, treatments, and recovery, Sarah Miller is ready to live beyond the illness that nearly took her life. Her boyfriend, Jack Wilson, is ready to follow her anywhere-even if he has not quite learned how to stop protecting her. And their friend Kim Hollister hopes that six weeks in Peru will prove she is more than the beautiful, privileged girl everyone thinks they know.In the summer of 1991, the three college students leave Houston for Iquitos, Peru, where they join a Christian mission organization working with remote villages along the Amazon's rivers. Aboard the riverboat La Esperanza, they encounter unfamiliar cultures, demanding work, new friendships, and the kind of challenges that cannot be solved by good intentions alone.As the summer unfolds, Jack must confront his fear of no longer being needed, Sarah struggles to reconcile independence with the life she survived, and Kim discovers that genuine love requires more than being admired. When a remote village faces a devastating crisis, the three friends must learn what it means to serve, to grieve, and to remain present when there are no easy answers.Told with warmth, humor, and emotional honesty, The Long Summer On the Amazon is a coming-of-age story about love, friendship, faith, and finding your place in a world much larger than the one you knew.Book Two of the Westridge series. Readers who enjoyed The Last Year at Westridge will reunite with Jack, Sarah, and Kim in a new chapter of their lives, while new readers can discover their story here.