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Flight from Fear
Flight from Fear was a finalist in the Original Softcover Category
of the 2003 WILLA Literary Competition, sponsored by Women Writing the West.
It's been a year since the U.S. joined the fight, but World War II is not going well for the Allies. Lacy Stearns' pilot husband, John, has been killed in the crash of his B-24 in England. Now Lacy has one burning desire—to fly for her country in her husband's place.
Swallowing the fear that turns her stomach to jelly when she sets foot in an airplane, Lacy earns her private pilot's license, is accepted into the WASP program in Sweetwater, Texas, and learns to fly "the Army way." Friends there, and others she meets while ferrying Army airplanes around the U.S., help her begin to live beyond John's loss and teach her how to survive. But the war is far from over, and fate still has other obstacles for Lacy to overcome.
In Sarah Byrn Rickman's novel, Flight From Fear, dynamic young women fly fast airplanes—not always with safe, happy landings. They live, they love and, because it is wartime, they lose loved ones. World War II tested the mettle of a generation—men and women. The WASPs were not found wanting!
Softcover, 241 pages
Read an excerpt from Flight from Fear.
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