A Walk With Wilson Burroughs

He was given ten months.
Instead, he got five hundred miles.

Shorty Lopez knows he deserves his sentence. No excuses. No one to blame but himself.

So when he's offered an alternative-walk the ancient pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago instead of serving his full time-he takes it. It's supposed to be a second chance. A way out.

But the Camino doesn't offer easy redemption.

Forced to walk alongside two other teenage offenders and a parole officer with secrets of his own, Shorty quickly learns that this journey isn't about distance-it's about confrontation. Miles of unforgiving terrain strip away defenses. Tempers flare. Old habits surface. And the truth becomes harder to outrun with every step.

What begins as a deal turns into something far more demanding:

A brutal trek across Spain.
Clashing personalities that refuse to stay quiet.
And a road that demands honesty-whether you're ready or not.

Because on the Camino, there's no hiding.

Only the long road ahead...
and the weight of everything you've been running from.

As the miles stretch on, the group begins to change in ways none of them expected. Bonds form where there was once resentment. Silence gives way to hard truths. And somewhere between the blisters and the breakthroughs, Shorty starts to wonder if redemption isn't something you're given-but something you have to walk toward, step by step.

A Walk with Wilson Burroughs is a powerful coming-of-age novel about second chances, brotherhood, and the quiet, difficult work of becoming someone new.