A cop haunted by the death of his partner becomes the police chief of a small Alaskan town and finds the promise of love with an independent pilot. But the shadow of an unsolved crime stalks them, bringing out all the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the town's placid surface.

For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted...

"The chronological story of the six-year, 1960-66, investigation ... into a mystery which began in the summer of 1937 [with the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, over the Pacific]."

Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers — Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there — were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.

When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened

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A rhymed telling of the life of the first African American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas, and persevered until she made that dream come true.