Mountain Flowers

ASKING FOR A FATHER'S BLESSING is intimidating enough for any young man seeking a daughter's hand in marriage, but it's especially so for Sean Wright, a chemical engineer from Pennsylvania. His girlfriend's parents, lifelong missionaries, live in the Dominican Republic, and he wants to ask for their permission in person. Just as he begins planning a trip to the island in January 2010, a deadly earthquake strikes neighboring Haiti. What begins as a relatively simple quest becomes a humanitarian mission that will test his will, his strength, and ultimately, everything he believes to be true about the world. Mountain Flowers is the true story of two simultaneous journeys: an untested volunteer's path from a mundane workaday life to the hemisphere's poorest nation suffering the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy, and a young man's personal voyage into the adult landscape of love, loyalty, and marriage. One hundred percent of the author's profits from sales of Mountain Flowers will be donated to Haitian and Dominican outreach groups that provide direct aid to the poor of Hispaniola.