Retired, divorced banker, and now hot air balloon pilot Tim Feely doesn't know the world is being eaten alive by zombies. It's early in the morning, and the first of the undead are only now appearing on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Right in Tim's town, in fact. So when he takes Julie and Lucas up into the air for their first hot air balloon ride, before the news reports start, and before the car accidents and looting begins, he has no idea just how crazy the ride will be. After all, Lucas was just bitten by a "crazy heroin addict." This standalone novella set in the apocalypse of Adrian Ring shows how one man, trapped with a ticking time bomb tries to escape the inevitable to reunite with his daughter Malinda on the ground below. Of course... the world he's tying get back to will never be the same if he puts his feet on the ground, ever again.