A Daughter for the Lost traces a family's legacy through the young women who strengthen that legacy and build on it. But Amelia seeks a new direction; she studies Anthropology, and Paleoanthropology at that. She builds a world-renowned career through hard, precise work and with her husband, also an anthropologist, has a baby, Elara. She drops archaeology and becomes a full-time mother.

Retired living in Decatur, Alabama. Write as if it were a job, second shift. Few distractions late at night, around the witching hour it is quiet. Driving I saw a lot I'd rather unsee and a lot more I'm glad I saw, Highway 30 through Wyoming at the 66MM through to McCammon, Idaho, littered with history. Part of the old Oregon Trail, unmarred history like emigrant burial ground where fever took an entire wagon train and Wagon Box burial ground where a family was killed by Indians after their horses 'ran away'. Lava Hot Springs thermal springs and stream. And Fish Kill Summit where I put my hand in a cloud one winter day.