It is 2014. Maya Margarita Moore is over sixty and fancies herself as a new-age Emily Dickinson. If she hadn't opened her mother's old suitcase, she might have been content to dress in gray sweatpants and write four-line poems in her La Conner, Washington house. She wouldn't have found her mother's letter: "Hello from the other side of the urn," it says and ends with an arrow pointing to a hand-drawn map. "Find your father; he's here." The map shows a village called Sangam, where the Sutlej and Saraswati Rivers converge in Tibet. Then the bit: "Jack will help."

In Confluence, reclusive Maya Margarita Moore opens a forgotten suitcase in the attic of her La Conner, Washington house. Inside, a letter from her late mother begins, "Hello, from the other side of the urn." The letter reveals that her father may be alive and living in a remote Himalayan community; her mother admonishes Maya to find him. With help from her friend, Jack, she receives an invitation from a father of whom she has no memory. Despite her doubts about her ability to travel at age sixty-five and being hindered by cerebral palsy, Maya decides to go on what becomes a transformative journey. Beyond the beyond.

Confluence is a Silver Award winner for spiritual fiction in the small press category from the Nautilus Book Awards for 2023.

In Confluence, reclusive Maya Margarita Moore opens a forgotten suitcase in the attic of her La Conner, Washington house. Inside, a letter from her late mother begins, "Hello, from the other side of the urn." The letter reveals that her father may be alive and living in a remote Himalayan community; her mother admonishes Maya to find him. With help from her friend, Jack, she receives an invitation from a father of whom she has no memory. Despite her doubts about her ability to travel at age sixty-five and being hindered by cerebral palsy, Maya decides to go on what becomes a transformative journey.

Confluence is a Silver Award winner for spiritual fiction in the small press category from the Nautilus Book Awards for 2023.