From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes
a powerful (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.
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 the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man
she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn miraculously survives the crash but so
do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston
there is her husband Brian their beloved daughter and her work as a death doula in which
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 career Dawn
once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now when it
seems that fate is offering her second chances 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 destination is to fly home but
she could take another path: return 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 unspool side by side as do the secrets and doubts long buried with 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?