There was no blood at the scene, not even a cut on his body. Yet on May 25, 1999, when the top of a massive beech tree snapped off and slammed into 33-year-old, Adirondack logger Scott Remington, his bones exploded. The terrain was unforgiving and the area too remote for cell phones. So the fact that paramedics reached him and got him out of the woods is a miracle. So is the improbable aftermath of a freak accident whose outcome felt like death to a woodsman who never knew how to sit still. "...the words fly off the page..." -- The Chronicle, Glens Falls, NY "Her writing is brilliant... the book is hard to put down." -- Recorder Newspapers "Montgomery captured not only the drama of an accidental tragedy but the power of the human spirit to overcome it." -- Christopher Reeve Gold Medal-ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards; Winner-Writer's Marketing Association Fresh Voices Award; Finalist-USA Book News Best Books 2005 Amy Montgomery is a New Jersey-based freelance writer, who works primarily with corporate clients, and an EMT on her town rescue squad. She has also worked as a radio reporter, press secretary, and adjunct instructor at the University of Michigan. She has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA from the University of Michigan. She met Scott Remington, the subject of "Just an Accident," while on assignment for the Christopher Reeve Foundation.