Twyla & the Warbirds: Family Lost

Book One of the Twyla & the Warbirds saga, Family Lost, traces a difficult path for an American-Ukrainian rural girl from Boonville California. At a tender age, Twyla Campbell loses her family in a freak aeroplane accident. Her young life is salvaged from indenture by the neighbor boy, who teaches her to fly. Stationed in Honolulu with her fiancé, she narrowly escapes certain death while flying above Pearl Harbor. Twyla lucks into a slot with the W.A.S.P., women's ferry pilots training program in Texas, where "the girls" have no business in the Army Air Force. Twyla transports fighter planes to Alaska for Roosevelt. There, she befriends Marina, a Russian pilot with indefatigable courage and odd sense of humor. When tragedy strikes, Twyla boards a transport home, only to find herself arrested on the Eastern Front and scheduled for execution...