<p><em>A journey of finding oneself in an increasingly material world...</em></p><p><em>An escape from censorship toward hoped-for redemption...</em></p><p><em>A path to forgiveness and restoration....</em></p><p>One bright morning in the summer of 2011, three strangers fortuitously meet at the start of Yosemite''s famed Mist Trail-a disillusioned investment banker with two million dollars in cash in his tent, a Chinese dissident artist escaping political persecution but not his own demons, and a middle-aged single woman trying to rebuild her life after a terrible divorce.</p><p>Each hiker is seeking something as they explore the Mist Trail, but by the end of the climb, two of them will be dead.</p><p>Containing elements of satire, neo-noir, and geopolitical thriller, <em>Range of Light</em> at heart is a literary work of fiction that captures and reveals the complex, unraveling lives of three strangers in one of America''s most iconic natural settings. Beneath the thundering