Path of Heart: A Memoir in Fiction

By Mark Soukup

Path of Heart
A Memoir in Fiction
by Mark Soukup

In the sun-baked hills and narrow dorm corridors of a small California college, Mike Coyne is learning what it means to survive-body, mind, and soul. Hunger drives him first, then desire, and finally a restless search for something harder to name.

On the track, Coyne runs with the precision of a man pursued by unseen forces; off it, he drifts through a world of back doors and small salvations, testing his will, his ethics, and the thin border between control and surrender. Two encounters will shape his passage-one that glows like memory, another that steadies like truth. Between them lies a continent of becoming.

From the cracked earth of the California infield to the midnight streets of Copenhagen, Path of Heart traces a young man's awakening-part memory, part invention, all true at its core. Guided by the cryptic wisdom of Castaneda and the blunt truths of hunger and grace, Coyne learns that the only path worth following is the one that still has a pulse.

Told in spare, luminous prose, Path of Heart marks the beginning of a larger journey-an odyssey through faith, endurance, and the quiet revolutions of becoming.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP7Q7X8T
• ISBN13: 9798273036260
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"