Wings
Danielle SteelFrom a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near
Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look
at the planes sitting shimmering in the moonlight. Her World War I
veteran father, Pat, wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless,
red-haired daughter. But it was Cassie who had the gift. Ever
since she could remember, Cassie felt the pull of getting in a cockpit
and taking to the skies. Observing all the while was her father's
junior partner, Nick "Stick " Galvin, a fellow war ace and airborne
daredevil. Nick would become her confidant and best friend, willing to
break all the rules to teach her to fly, knowing that the greatest
gift he could give her was the freedom of flying.
When
California entrepreneur Desmon Williams sees Cassie in a local airshow,
he invites her to California where she breaks new ground as a
test pilot. Soon Cassie's record-breaking flights make her a media
darling. Drawn by Desmond's plans for her to break Amelia Earhardt's
records, but determined to avoid her mistakes, Cassie trains for the
remarkable journey around the world. From public appearances to press
conferences, easily used by both her husband and the press, Cassie
realizes that there is more to life than making headlines. Risking her
life, pushing herself to her limits, she decides to chart her own
course and pursue her own destiny, whatever it costs her.
Wings
is set in a time of constant change, when the world was on the brink
of war and the skies were filled with adventurers, a time when courage
and daring forever changed modern-day aviation.