Flying High
While a good novel can stand on its own merits, sometimes it becomes much better when its reader – and, in this case, its reviewer – knows the author. Such is the case with Waiting in the Wings, the last novel in Jeanette Vaughan's Flying Solo trilogy about intrepid aviatrix Nora Broussard.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeanette last year when her first novel, Flying Solo, was released. She relayed a bit of the writing background of the story of a daring woman in New Orleans in the 1960s who, against all odds, learns to fly. In the process, she falls in love with her flight instructor and life, well, life becomes a stormy cloud with a thin silver lining. In the second, Solo Vietnam, Nora braves the worst of the conflict to find MIA Steve. Both were excellent reads. All the more so because I was able to learn first-hand from their author the backstage information that lead to her writing them.

Now, in Waiting in the Wings, Jeanette brings to light yet another twist in Nora's exciting life: the story of the child whom she had out of wedlock and was forced to give up for adoption. Steve, of course, is the father. But what happens to Jena is an eye-opening emotionally charged glimpse into what it is really like to be an adopted child in search of her birthmother.

An adoptee herself, Jeanette's third literary offering is a heartwarming and truly heartfelt story that should be on everyone's reading list. Please wing your way over to www.authorexposure.com to read my review and then fly straight away to your nearest bookstore. This novel will have, as it did mine, your spirits soaring.