About the book: 2018 / Half a century ago, a passenger airliner exploded in the night sky over Beaufort. This event gave rise to numerous rumors, which, decades later, still haunt the minds of local residents. Gibbs Hayward and his late brother's wife Merit find themselves drawn into an unusual investigation that is directly related to this long-standing incident. Past and present are intertwined in this magnetic, almost noir story, where love can turn life around, and selfishness becomes the trigger for a chain of fatal, ambiguous events.