The Book of Two Ways

For Dawn Edelstein, things change completely in an instant. As the flight attendant announces, "Get ready for a crash landing," she is aboard an aircraft. She steels herself as ideas run through her head. What's astonishing is that Wyatt Armstrong, a guy she last saw fifteen years ago, is on her mind instead of her husband.

Amazingly, Dawn survives the collision, but so do all the questions that had been raised before. Her life has been fantastic. Her cherished daughter, her husband Brian, and her job as a death doula, where she assists hospice patients in their passage from life to death, are all present in Boston.

However, Wyatt Armstrong is an archaeologist in Egypt who finds ancient burial sites; she trained for this career but had to give it up when life unexpectedly interfered. She is also unsure about the decision she made before, even if it seems like destiny is giving her another opportunity.

The airline makes sure the survivors are evaluated by a doctor after the crash landing and then provides transportation to their desired location. Dawn's best course of action is to stay on her current course and return to her family. The other is to visit the archaeological site she abandoned years before, get back in touch with Wyatt over their unresolved past, and maybe finish her investigation into The Book of Two Ways, which is the earliest blueprint of the afterlife that has been discovered.

Dawn's two alternative futures and the long-buried secrets and uncertainties next to them unravel side by side as the tale progresses. Dawn has to face the questions she has never really questioned herself: What constitutes a life well-lived? What is left behind when we go from this world? Do we choose, or do we choose ourselves? And if you hadn't ended up becoming the person you are today, who would you be?