Former Army Nightstalker pilot Rhett Hawkins knew the day would come, but he had hoped it wouldn't be until after he was gone. Maddie Carter was destined to die young, because that is just how she lived. She flew by the seat of her pants and flying was all she cared about. He'd learned that the hard way. But after her memorial service, Hawk just couldn't get the feeling that something was wrong with the recounting of the events that led to the crash and her supposed death. Neither the helo or the other three bodies had been found. It drove him insane until he decided to do some investigation of his own. After getting conflicting stories from her two surviving crew members, he knew he had to go the full distance to settle his mind. It wasn't because he was still in love with her or anything, he just needed closure. Or at least that's what he told himself when he took a month off from work at Deep Six to go to El Salvador. Once in Central America, Hawk infiltrates the gang her unit was trying to take down and realizes there is much more going on than the Army knows. Not only is her now blacked-out helicopter back in service, Maddie is behind the stick and under the gun to make drug runs for the gang. Maddie is not the same, she's scarred, hardened and has no memory of him at all. He has to convince her she needs to be saved, but will he get himself killed in the process? Or will he save the only woman he'd ever asked to marry him?