**Prologue**
**Some nightmares do come true.**
Maria’s nightmares about being on the verge of a plane crash had ceased a few years ago. But this was not a dream. It was as real as death. This time, contrary to her dreamworld-horror- trips, the plane would not vanish into thin air as she woke up breathless, sweating in her bed at home. This time when she woke from her coma it would be with 3 broken ribs, black-and- blue, bruised, battered, beaten, a metal pipe through her left thigh. Somewhere, nowhere, deep in the Alps.
**360 seconds to impact **
This time her two daughters, little Eva and teenage Joana are next to her. Sebastian, her lover, best friend and husband, is in the cockpit ...