Last Flight Before Dawn

Two pilots. One dangerous secret. A future neither is willing to surrender.Southeast Asia, 1935. The skies are opening to a new age of aviation, and Beatrice "e;Bix"e; Whitlock and Dominic "e;Rook"e; Calder have finally found something more difficult than flying through a monsoon: building a future together.When Bix receives an extraordinary opportunity to lead a new regional air route, Rook is offered a competing contract promising prestige and financial security. Both have fought too hard for their independence to surrender it now. Neither intends to sacrifice the love they have struggled to reclaim.Then an aircraft disappears.A missing pilot, contradictory freight manifests and impossible flight calculations draw them into an investigation stretching from busy colonial ports to isolated jungle landing strips. As engineer, navigator, journalist and rival flyers join the search, evidence begins pointing towards a clandestine freight operation whose organisers will do anything to protect their routes.With lives at stake and the weather closing in, Bix and Rook must combine precision and instinct to uncover the truth. But the greatest decision awaiting them cannot be solved with a chart or a compass.Can two fiercely independent hearts share one destination without surrendering the freedom that made them fall in love?The Last Flight Before Dawn is a sweeping historical aviation adventure filled with dangerous flying, intricate mystery, spirited rivalry and passionate romance. The sixth and final novel in The Wings of the Monsoon brings Bix and Rook's unforgettable love story to its conclusion.