The Fragrance of Angels

<p>It happened in an instant: a car crash thrown from the vehicle pronounced clinically dead while lying on the road rotors turned off the Life Flight helicopter—and then swept into eternity . . . only to return after being pronounced dead three times to a far different life.</p><p>Welcome to <em>The Fragrance of Angels</em> Martha Brookhart Halda’s memoir about time on the other side—and how and why she reshaped and developed a new purpose in life after it became more fraught with challenge after visiting heaven.</p><p><em>The Fragrance of Angels</em> distinguishes itself as a mother’s empowerment story taking us from a parent’s greatest horror—dying while the kids are young—to a profound change in her approach to parenting and life. The former collegiate track volleyball and basketball player and mother discusses how she dealt with extensive rehabilitation a difficult marriage re-learning to walk and talk returning to full-time motherhood running the Dublin Marathon three years after her accident striking out on her own meeting new love and finding new meaning in a world that never looked or felt the same to her again. Within her story is that of so many other women in the middle of their lives yet infused with a sense of purpose and discovery borne by her time on the other side.</p><p><em>The Fragrance of Angels</em> is filled with a deep sense of love and challenge physical beauty and emotional upheaval frustration and triumph. Ultimately it contains quite an epiphany—the one Martha realized while in eternity.</p>