For Lux Carey, it was always a questionable cross-country flight in a WW II-era tandem-seat vintage aircraft his best friend, Walt, invited him to help fly the exacting two-week missing. Replicating an early 20th-century barnstormer's adventure, at first, Lux relished the invite. A week or so before leaving, however, Lux had a dream and premonition that the excursion would turn out disastrous. As it turned out, early on there was indeed a life-treating crash, and, for Lux, a veritable fall from wings metaphor. The protagonist of this twin-volume tome is based on a true story (whose names are changed to protect the not-so-innocent). Because he was sitting in the front, he was also the most seriously injured. After his near-death consequence, including a surreal out-of-body experience just prior to the crash, the two pilots were difficult to locate in mountainous terrain by air and ground search and rescue teams. Finally, late in the evening, they were rescued and both pilots were transported to a Cumberland, MD hospital. Upon arrival, Lux was DOA but quickly revived. Given his extensive injuries, after several specialized operations and a little over a month's stay at the hospital, upon Lux's return to Denver, only then would he attempt to put his fractured life whole again, much like the Humpty Dumpty allegory. Because of his perplexing psychological trauma and private drama (viz., remorse, self-pity, and ignominy he couldn't explain or share with anyone), another form of drama begins. Despite the fact he had two nagging regrets, namely, ignoring the premonition he had survived the crash, he was also no longer vested in life as he once was. Hence, a desire to move somewhere else, though without his wife.