Flying into Darkness by Don Vallee

Some scars never heal. They only wait.Evan Williams appears to be an ordinary man; intelligent, disciplined, and quietly successful. He has built a respectable career in information technology, lives comfortably in upstate New York, and shares a long marriage with his wife, Jenna.

From the outside, his life looks stable, even enviable. What no one sees is the carefully buried past that shaped him a childhood defined by fear, silence, and a single irreversible act of violence.When Evan’s mother is dying, repeated trips back to Long Island reopen wounds he has spent decades suppressing. Old memories resurface, tensions strain his marriage, and distance quietly grows between him and Jenna.

In the midst of grief and emotional exhaustion, Jenna shares an unexpected idea: learning to fly. What begins as a way to escape traffic and reclaim lost dreams becomes something far more dangerous, a new form of control, freedom, and identity.As Evan immerses himself in aviation, his marriage deteriorates in parallel. Jenna, lonely and emotionally abandoned, makes choices of her own choices that will ripple outward with devastating consequences.

Beneath the surface of everyday routines, betrayal festers, secrets multiply, and Evan’s carefully constructed restraint begins to crack.Flying Into Darkness is a chilling psychological thriller that explores how unresolved trauma can masquerade as normalcy and how quickly that illusion can shatter. Told with mounting tension and intimate detail, the novel examines power, morality, and the thin line between justice and obsession. As Evan ascends into the skies, the reader is drawn ever deeper into a descent where love, loyalty, and sanity collide.Because some men don’t escape their past.They rise above it until gravity pulls them back down.