Never Lose Hope

By: Mitchell, Luke

A tear jerking story of pride, patience and a promise kept across two continents and twenty three years.

A new Novella, Never Lose Hope tells the story of Robert Ashby, a 48- year old British human rights lawyer, and the extraordinary journey he undertakes - on foot, by bicycle, by hitchhiked ride, and finally by sailboat - from the Arctic edge of Alaska to a small blue house in Colombia, racing against time to keep a promise he made a lifetime ago.

Twenty three years earlier, Robert fell in love with Mar Hernandez, a fierce golden eyed Colombian law student, during a single unforgettable year working together in Cartagena. Too proud and too young to say the words that mattered, the two parted ways - and spent the next two decades building separate lives, never quite letting go of each other, and never quite reaching for each other again.

When Robert receives word that Mar is dying of stage four cancer, a single phone call reopens everything they left unsaid - including a half joking promise from their youth: that no matter where life took them, they would be each other's last kiss. With almost no money and no plan, Robert sets out from the northernmost reaches of Alaska, and what follows is a journey carried forward not be wealth or convenience, but by the kindness of strangers - truck drivers, elders, mechanics, nurses and fellow travellers across the length of two continents - each one drawn, in their own way, into the story of a man determined to arrive in time.

Never Lose Hope is a story about the cost of silence, the weight of pride, and the lengths people will go to for love when they finally understand how little time is left to say it out loud.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLY58TD8
• ISBN13: 9798160001265
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"