The award-winning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the
Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high
above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a spirited, "entertaining
surprise" (Publishers Weekly) of a novel in league with Water for
Elephants and The Aviator's Wife.
They are barnstormers...the daredevil fliers whose airborne acrobatics
are a thrilling spectacle crisscrossing the Heartland skies. Rising
above each of their circumstances in their own "flying circus" are Cora
Rose Haviland, a privileged young woman left penniless when her father's
fortune is lost; Charles "Gil" Gilchrist, a World War I pilot whose
traumatic past fuels his death-defying stunts; and eighteen-year-old
Henry Schuler, the son of a German immigrant farmer, on the run from
shocking accusations. Each holds secrets that could destroy their
makeshift family. And, on their adrenaline-charged journey of
self-discovery, one of them must pay the price.
With the poignant and powerful storytelling voice that made Whistling
Past the Graveyard "a classic, a book people want to pass along for
generations to come" (Feathered Quill Book Reviews), Susan Crandall
artfully weaves the stories of three unforgettable characters, each
searching for salvation that waits just beyond the horizon.
