Danica has always hated flying. But this doesn’t stop her from falling in love with Etsell Greene, a pilot with dreams of becoming an Alaskan bush pilot. Together the Greenes make their home in Blackhawk, Iowa, where Etsell gives flying lessons while Danica remains on terra firma, running her own beauty salon. When a friend offers Etsell a chance to test-drive his dream, Danica finds herself reluctantly bidding her husband goodbye while he takes off for a trip to Alaska. Only a few days later, Etsell is pronounced missing. While Danica endures nightmares and waits for more news, she turns to her neighbor, Ben --- a single man and pastor who offers gentle guidance and innocent distraction. Ultimately, Danica is forced to search for the truth in her marriage and treks to Alaska to grapple with the unanswerable questions about her husband’s disappearance. But when she learns that Etsell wasn’t flying alone and that a woman is missing too, the bits and pieces of the careful life that she had constructed for them in Iowa take to the wind.