Dawn Edelstein is travelling on a plane when there is a emergency landing during which some of the passengers die. This seems to make her reconsider her life, and she makes the drastic decision to travel to Egypt and the dig where she worked as a graduate student.
Dawn is a death doula at present. Twenty years ago she was a graduate Egyptologist, and she was part of a team in Deir-El-Bersha. One of her colleagues was Wyatt Armstrong, who she initially disliked, but we can tell that they eventually became lovers. Life changed for Dawn when her mother died. Her mother hid her condition from her children until it was too late. Dawn flew back home and was with her mother in the hospice, and it is there that she discovered that she was good with people. When her mother died, she was given a job at the hospice and changed careers. It is during this time that she met her husband, Brian.
The book seems to be told from two different lines. The part about Dawn travelling to Egypt and remeeting Ian. And the line with Brian and their daughter Meret. It seems that she and Brian had a disagreement on Meret's birthday. He had missed the girl's birthday as he was helping a female colleague to instal her air conditioning, and he didn't answer Dawn's texts. Then the colleague, Gita, offered herself to him, but he refused. Brian told Dawn everything and how nothing happened, but Dawn is hurt.
Brian is a scientist and studies the concept of parallel universes, and it seems that the book reflects that idea: the universe where Dawn travels to Egypt and asks Ian for a job, and the one where she goes back home and tries to fix things with Brian.
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