"Famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke never expected to see her husband, adventurer Gabriel Starke, ever again. They had been a golden couple, enjoying a whirlwind courtship amid the backdrop of a glittering social set in prewar London until his sudden death with the sinking of the Lusitania. Five years later, beginning to embrace life again, Evie embarks upon a flight around the world, collecting fame and admirers along the way. In the midst of her triumphant...

CIA agent Emily Pollifax is called in to help when a young American woman who faced down hijackers on board a flight to the Middle East, saving the lives of hundreds of people, disappears and U.S. officials believe she has been kidnapped.