Leaving Lonesome

A family torn apart by war. A love affair that reaches to the sky. And a secret with the power to redeem or destroy them?Sutter County, California 1972John Reno returns from Vietnam a disgraced army helicopter pilot wracked by guilt and grief. Homeless and alone he makes his way from one crop-dusting job to the next until he reaches the woman who can grant him redemption or ensure his damnation.Swampy Callohan is a young widow barely holding on to her crop-dusting company. She flies her trusty old Stearmans from dawn until dusk, desperate to make it in a man's world of faster, more efficient ag cat planes, but time, technology, and a family on the brink threaten to destroy her.When John Reno-the best pilot she's ever seen- arrives one fateful afternoon, she believes Callohan Dusters can be saved. And maybe her heart will be reborn as well. Reno becomes her saving grace until the day she discovers he harbors a secret that just might shatter her whole world.