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A stunning debut novel about friendship and its power to make us soarAudrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It is why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It is why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it is why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as dear as the women she flies with. Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe.Following the attack, Audrey struggles to reconcile her devastating losses - colleagues, friends and the piece of her heart she left in the air.
About the Author
Noelle Salazar is the USA Today and Publisher's Weekly Bestselling Author of THE FLIGHT GIRLS, a novel that shines a light on the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) a little-known piece of American history. She is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest and a lifelong storyteller. In 2011, Noelle discovered a book about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II, which set off six years of research into the program, the women who were part of it, and what their service meant to their country. She has met and interviewed some of the last living WASPs as well as their family members, and visited the training facility - now a museum dedicated to the WASP - in Sweetwater, Texas.
