Chrysalis - First Edition

A decorated former combat fighter pilot, airline captain and father of two, Spencer Aubrey has the perfect life. However, he is haunted by his father’s death in a plane crash when Spencer was four, that stranded him and his mother for weeks in the Canadian wilderness. He desperately seeks something for which he has no words. On the 36th anniversary of his father’s death, this singular impulse drives him to tear his life apart in one mad act. He loses everything and must start over. The maelstrom he creates becomes a ritual journey for Spencer that will encompass a secret tunnel, a sea captain, a crazed shaman, a ballet dancer, a haunted house, a blind seeing eye dog, and the worst serial killer in American history. A new life could await his journey’s end, if he survives in this often funny and sometimes frightening tale of grief and transformation.