Beyond the Sunset

Henry Ormerod has been dead for years, though his body still walks the streets of New York. Since his wife Marjory died, he exists in a fog of memory and regret, unable to escape the rooms they shared or the future they should have had. Then his old friends arrive: Tawannears, an Iroquois chief with ancient wisdom, and Peter Corlaer, a frontiersman who knows the wild country beyond the Mississippi. They offer Ormerod something no one else can - a way out. Not of life, but of the paralysis that has replaced it. Their destination is the "Land of Lost Souls," a place existing in the margins of maps and myth. What begins as an escape becomes something more: a journey into the vast American interior that tests Ormerod's will, his friendships, and his capacity to live again. The wilderness offers no promises - only the possibility that what is lost might be found, or that some losses are meant to be carried forward.