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The Ride: In the Air and Thru the Courts, is about Tina Morgan and how a plane crash in the Mexican desert changed the course of her life. Tina and her fiancé, Hunter, were on the way back home after the perfect vacation, when just 10 minutes after takeoff, the engines shut down and the plane crashed in a remote section of desert.
As Tina puts the pieces of the puzzle together, she began to wonder if the crash was caused by pilot error?
Tina's ride through the courts involved, hiring an attorney to help her recoup her medical expenses, only to watch him get arrested. Tina's court case is moved to New York where according to a crime investigative website, that locale has been accused of committing dastardly deeds, including judicial steering, corruption, denial of due process and obstruction of justice. In this Courthouse, Tina's case takes 11 long years.
14 years later, Tina searches for that needle in the haystack, the men who saved her life on that fateful day.
The story encompasses years filled with parallels that include, Good vs. Evil, Justice vs. Corruption, Life vs. Death and Triumph vs. Tragedy. Tina's learns that no matter how futile the situation seems, the human spirit must, and will prevail.
"An American court of law is in many ways un-American. In our everyday lives we Americans celebrate the subversion of the social order; everywhere a visitor to our country looks he will find a poor American boy trying to make good, usually with the encouragement of his society. An American courtroom is designed first and foremost to preserve the social order, to keep the poor boy down. The judge sits on a raised dais from which he can condescend to the lawyers, the lawyers stand up so that they may condescend to the seated witness, and the witness, though he may have no one to whom he can plausibly condescend other than perhaps the curiosity seekers on the hard benches at the back of the room, at least has the comfort of his upholstered chair. If anyone dares to step the slightest bit out of line, a large man emerges from the back to shout, 'Order in the court!' If the judge decides he needs to relieve himself, the large man appears again to shout, 'All rise!' And everyone in the room stands and waits stupidly until the judge has ambled off to pee. There is not a 'please' or a 'thank you' or a 'by your leave' in any of this. Our democracy’s system of justice is a feudal society in miniature."
