In May 1995, Dani Robicheau Kirkland, a civilian nurse practitioner at Eglin Air Force base, is clearing out her mother’s house in Houma, Louisiana for an estate sale. While searching the attic, Dani finds a box containing her father’s Vietnam War POW bracelet, a photo album she has never seen, and letters her mother had written to him after his helicopter went down and he’d been declared missing in action. As Dani looks through them, she discovers her alcoholic and abusive mother was a woman who once clung to faith, desperately trusting God for her husband’s safe return.

Dani’s husband, Chris, an Air Force captain and F15 instructor pilot grew up on stories of his grandfather’s World War II exploits, his father’s failed dreams of flying in his own cockpit, and the expectation Chris’s military career would outshine them both. As he wrestles with the increasing weight of family legacy, Chris, is tasked with a clandestine and potentially internationally explosive mission: flying an unsanctioned diplomat into Bosnia to broker peace talks while the U.S. still remains officially neutral in the war. But when the plane goes down due to a bird strike, Chris is trapped behind enemy lines with little hope of rescue.

Like her mother, Dani clings to hope and a certainty that Chris remains alive despite the Air Force’s doubts. As she searches for a way to bring him home and Chris strives to stay alive, they each battle their family histories. Will Dani repeat her mother’s choices, diving into the bottle to cope with Chris’s disappearance? Will Chris continue struggling to please his earthly father instead of following his own desires? As the stakes rise, each will need to discover their strongest tie is to the only One who can loose them onto their God-ordained paths.