The Acquiescent Pilgrim

By Baxter Huston

When three friends hiking in northern British Columbia step into a silence they cannot
explain, Bim is the first to sense that something is terribly wrong.
The road they were traveling on has vanished. The mountains they know are nowhere to be
found. A river has appeared, flowing in the wrong direction, cutting across the landscape
where none should exist.
As the daylight begins to fade, confusion turns into fear. Cutter begins to lose his grip on
reality. Deep struggles to hold the group together, his thoughts spiraling in the face of this
strange new world. But Bim, practical and steady in the face of chaos, must guide them
through a place that, while familiar, obeys rules that defy all logic.

What starts as a survival ordeal in the wilderness soon reveals a much darker reality: a world
governed by an all-powerful Avatar a force woven into the fabric of existence itself, manifest
through terrifying, intelligent beings known as Walkers.
To survive, the men must do more than adjust to a hostile, alien land. They must confront a
world where faith is no longer a belief, but an irrefutable reality and where the concepts of
freedom, sacrifice, and human destiny take on unsettling new meanings.
The Acquiescent Pilgrim is a thought-provoking speculative novel that blends survival,
spirituality, and metaphysical evolution. It's a story of friendship, sacrifice, and the human
struggle to adapt to a reality that is more orderly and less negotiable than our own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1072074036
• ISBN13: 9781072074038
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"