Pedaling West

<p><strong><em>It will be the adventure of a lifetime for Carrie Brinkley... if she makes it to the end alive.</em></strong></p><ul><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>GOLD MEDAL:</strong> Readers' Favorite Book Awards - 2023 - Fiction - Crime</li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>OVERALL WINNER:</strong> Firebird Book Awards - Fiction</li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>WINNER:</strong> Literary Titan Book Awards - Gold Medal</li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>WINNER:</strong> Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winter 2023 - Best Adventure Fiction</li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>WINNER:</strong> Reader's House (London) - Editor's Choice 2024 - Award for Literary Excellence</li></ul><p><strong>When Carrie loses her job and boyfriend</strong> during the opening weeks of the pandemic she's determined to reset her life in a positive direction. The answer? A solo two-month cross-country bicycle trip from Virginia Beach to Mendocino California.</p><p><strong>Yet dangers lurk that she'd never anticipated.</strong> During Carrie's idyllic journey across the continent her greatest danger comes not from her encounters with angry animals road hazards or the elements. Something much worse stalks her-something much too human.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a novel that's part literary suspense part women's fiction part crime thriller part travel fiction and one hundred percent fun. A young woman's journey of adventure becomes one of profound self-discovery.</p>