Suddenly, it became hard to breathe and the sound of the engine throbbed in Eva's head. The plane crashed and skidded. She heard the wail of sirens. The last thing she remembered was pulling her body across the tarmac an inch at a time--before her world went black.
Sweetwater, Texas, 1943
.
Eva
has always wanted to fly away. She jumps at the chance to train with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots and help the war effort, even if the days are exhausting, the southern nights sweltering. When she's in the air, it's all worthwhile: her heart soars, as close to infinity as you can get. And since she met handsome
Jack
, she has someone to fly back to. But on one dangerous night, everything goes wrong. When she awakes, her body is broken and her memory is gone...
Los Angeles, 1977
seems like a normal married woman with a family to be proud of. When she woke up after that terrible night--a blank in her memory--Jack was smiling down at her. But so many decades later, Eva is still searching for answers about the night that changed her life forever.
Why have letters to her fellow pilots gone unanswered for thirty years?
What really happened on her last flight?
Ever since that catastrophic crash, Eva has lived with the worst fear imaginable: did she do something terrible enough to make her friends cut her off? Increasingly overcome by frightening flashbacks, where she is fighting to escape from a tiny cockpit filled with smoke as her plane falls to the ground, she desperately tries to uncover the truth. But are some secrets best left buried in the past?
From bestselling author Ella Carey comes a sweeping story, inspired by true events, about the brave, forgotten female pilots who helped America win the war. A story you will never forget, and one that will always stay in your heart.
This book was first published in 2019.
Readers are utterly captivated by
Beyond the Horizon
!
"
I absolutely adored it!
...
Gripping
and
so difficult to put down
So moving
5 stars!
" Goodreads Reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Completely drew me in
I cried
with her... This book
will be one of the best you read this year!
A moving, beautifully written novel
about the amazing WASP during World War Two. True to life and
packed full of emotion
." Soraya M. Lane, bestselling author of
Wives of War