Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, these thoughts are not about her husband, but about a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.
Dawn miraculously survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly arisen. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, her beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, where she helps ease the transition between life and death for her clients.
But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites—a job she once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her a second chance, she is not as sure of the choice she once made.
After the crash landing, the airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious option for Dawn is to continue on the path she is on and return to her family. The other is to go back to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways—the first known map of the afterlife.
As the story unfolds, Dawn’s two possible futures unravel side by side, along with the secrets and doubts long buried alongside them. Dawn must confront the questions she’s never truly asked: What does a life well-lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices... or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are right now?
