A coming of age journey along the Camino de Santiago in medieval Spain.Book One in the Seekers SeriesIn 1250 AD, in an obscure corner of northeastern Spain at the foot of the Pyrenees, ancientBasque traditions collide with the onslaught of Christianity. Amika, a young Basque girl on thebrink of adulthood and her mother, a healer, awake in the night to the howls of an angry mobapproaching their hut. Torches fly and their hut goes up in flames. The rabid throng drags hermother away to be burned at the stake as a witch. Amika flees in terror into the forest. A WiseWoman of the ancient tradition rescues her and initiates Amika into the Old Ways. Soon theytoo are hunted down and jailed, doomed to suffer the same fate as Amika's mother. Asympathetic priest frees Amika, but as the price of her freedom he sends her on a quest to walkthe Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrimage route across northern Spain. Along the wayAmika encounters danger, hardship, and fear before she meets the man and child with whomshe will share her future.