What happens when the path you choose leads far from everything you thought you knew?

Shannon O'Brien leaves behind a life of routine to chase adventure across South America and Asia. With only a backpack and a restless heart, she dives into landscapes as beautiful as they are unpredictable. But what begins as a journey to explore the world soon becomes a deeper quest to explore herself.

She finds herself lost and dehydrated in Peru's Colca Canyon, nursing an injured spider monkey in the Bolivian jungle, and inside a high-altitude jail. A crude hospital in Cambodia tests her limits, while encounters with a shaman in Vietnam and a dangerous brush with Moroccan drug lords challenge everything she thought she knew about trust and survival.

When a relationship turns violent and threats close in from unexpected places, the stakes are no longer just about where she's going -- but whether she can make it through.

In a world that constantly shifts beneath her feet, Shannon's greatest challenge isn't just survival -- it's learning how to keep moving forward without losing herself.

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• TravelAsiaSoutheast
• TravelAsiaVietnam
• Biographies & MemoirsCultural & RegionalAsian & Asian American

• Publication Date: January 13, 2026
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 300 Pages
• File Size: 15 KB