Sisters of the Sky — Teri McLaren

When WWII claimed every available American male pilot to fight the increasingly dangerous Japanese “divine wind” pilots in the Pacific and the German Luftwaffe in the European air war, the United States discovered a great, untapped resource: its women pilots. Upon graduation from military-style flight training, these women provided critical support by delivering every kind of airplane to stateside departure points for the war overseas. WWII is raging, and the Nazis are desperate to rule the skies. The war touches everyone, and when 17 year-old flying prodigy Sprite Shannon loses her home after her widowed father dies in an aviation accident, she also loses the only way she has to make a living -- the family crop dusting business. Her troubles multiply when fate causes her to cross paths with materials expert Major Wallace Doyle, an unstable, reluctant draftee, who would have preferred to perform his military duty from a research laboratory. But the war -- and the Nazis -- make Doyle choose a side when he is assigned to a secret mission called Archangel. Doyle steals Sprite's home and the only thing Sprite has left, a valuable heirloom, and promises her arrest -- or worse -- for resisting his heavy-handed authority. Sprite knows Doyle can find her anywhere she runs -- except maybe Sweetwater, Texas, training base for the Womens' Airforce Service Pilots -- the WASP. Follow Sprite as she meets her new sisters and a handsome Marine -- who just might be the love of her young life -- as they take on flight school, service, and some top-secret adventures that change the course of the war.