Pilgrimage

It was a day when nothing should have gone wrong.but everything did. Twenty-two years after the drowning of her baby daughter, history professor Madeleine Seymour is still riddled with guilt. Hoping to banish the nightmares that haunt her and steal her peace, she travels to Italy with her husband, Jack, on a pilgrimage. On their journey they visit churches in Rome, Orvieto, Milan, Lake Como, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Assisi, and Siena, and learn from the lives of the martyrs. Accompanied by a black Franciscan friar, they meet a host of intriguing people along the way-including a crippled orphan, a mysterious stalker, and a blond temptress-and explore the very nature of truth and belief. A powerful first-person story of spiritual and physical healing The first of a trilogy