Flight Dreams — Michael Craft

Seven years ago, Chicago socialite Helena Carter disappeared from her fashionable North Shore estate. The newspapers have been humming with rumors of foul play--and worse. And now the headlines are blazing even hotter because in three months she will be declared legally dead, and the bulk of her fortune will go to the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

Investigative journalist Mark Manning may be the only one in Chicago who believes the missing heiress is still alive, taking flight from a secret too terrible to expose. But if the thirty-nine-year-old reporter has dedicated his career to uncovering the truth, his private life has been built on one enormous deception: Manning is gay. When Manning's instincts compel him to follow a trail leading to Arizona, he meets architect Neil Waite--the first man who breaks through his painstakingly built wall of self-denial. And in an unforgettable night of searing honesty and breathtaking beauty, he finally discovers what it means to soar. But just as Manning is beginning to accept and take pride in his homosexuality, a shocking revelation unfolds that will place his own life at grave risk.

More than a tightly-plotted mystery, even more than the moving tale of one man's coming-out, FLIGHT DREAMS is a tale of dreams we all share...dreams that transcend our ordinary lives...dreams that can, truly, take flight.