About This Book
At a summer course in Tibetan Culture at the local university Lynn and Peter, both widowed, single parents, meet. Common ground makes their non-traditional student status more comfortable. By the end of the course, Lynn hopes their relationship might be serious. But Peter is years younger than she is, and their age difference might be a problem in the future. Lynn can't decide what to do. She's confused. She knows she's in love. To escape, to think, to get away, late in October Lynn begins a ten-day tour from Kathmandu, Nepal to Lhasa, Tibet, with her cousin, Jennifer. No one but Lynn knows her real reason for the trip. In excited anticipation, Lynn and Jennifer and eight other Americans leave Kathmandu in a forty-year-old public bus driven by a Chinese. As they make their way to Lhasa, it becomes apparent that the tour isn't the first-class journey they paid for. Overnight stops are dreadful. The food is almost inedible. The run-down bus leaks the cold and dust from the Gobi desert adding to the difficulties of the Himalayan passes. And then, Jennifer falls ill. Two Chinese appear and disappear, haunting the women's every move. Through this on-going nightmare, will Lynn be able to decide what to do about Peter?
