Dare to Fly [Hardcover] Shepherd Janine

Janine Shepherd was an Olympic-hopeful cross-country skier when a truck hit her during a training ride, shattering her back and destroying her athletic career. Told she'd never walk again, she fought through years of surgeries and rehabilitation — then did something nobody expected. She became a commercial airline pilot. This is the memoir of that journey: raw about the trauma, honest about the grief of losing her identity as an athlete, and ultimately exhilarating in its defiance. Shepherd writes with the precision of someone who's navigated both physical wreckage and the wreckage of her own expectations. It's not a simple triumph-over-adversity story — it's about rebuilding yourself when the person you were is gone. For anyone who's had to start over from zero.