Mary Willis thought flying was Ellie Bradford's dream. She was wrong.
When thirteen-year-old Eleanor Bradford is abandoned by her parents in the small South Carolina town of Harper's Grove, the Willis family gives her something she has never truly known: a home. And in Mary Willis, Ellie finds a love that will shape the rest of her life. As the girls grow into women, their lives begin to take different paths. Mary pursues her dream of becoming a veterinarian, while Ellie's passion for flying eventually carries her across the Atlantic, where she joins Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II. An ocean may separate them, but war has a way of revealing what matters most.