

Yet Duchess’s devotion will become an unexpected lifeline. When Ollie’s plane is downed behind enemy lines, he and Susan both know how remote the chances of reunion must be.

His quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert assignment that aims to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, a young pilot named Ollie Evans has decided to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess. After losing her parents, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. Enemy planes blacken the sky over the home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie.
