The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.

A survivor of the infamous 1972 plane crash in the Andes that inspired the film "Alive" offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled him to become one of the worlds leading pediatric cardiologists.

Details how the author survived a horrific plane crash that left her with third degree burns over eighty percent of her body and learned to embrace the power of love, motherhood, community, faith, and the simple joys of everyday life.