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First published 2021
Marian Graves begins life as an infant pulled from a sinking ship in 1914. She and her twin brother Jamie grow up in Montana under the care of their unreliable uncle. When barnstorming pilots arrive in town with their worn biplanes, Marian discovers her calling. She abandons school at fourteen to pursue aviation, accepting funding from a bootlegger who owns her a dangerous debt. Her dream drives her toward an ambitious goal: flying around the world by crossing both poles. A century later, actress Hadley Baxter wins the role of Marian in a biographical film. Hadley seeks escape from a suffocating romantic film series that made her famous. As she researches the aviator's life, focusing on Marian's mysterious vanishing in Antarctica, Hadley finds unexpected connections between their separate quests for freedom. Both women fight against the constraints of their eras, determined to control their own destinies across different centuries and continents.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, biographical-fiction, 21st-century, aviation
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, quest
Setting: Antarctica, Montana
Period: 1914, 21st-century
593 pages · Hardcover · Knopf