supplying aviation equipment to a military logistics program.
That contractor had supplied defective avionics components to Laura’s former squadron.
And one of those failures had been connected to the accident that killed Laura’s wingman and closest friend, Captain Gabriel Torres.
That accident had destroyed Laura.
For eighteen months, she had believed Gabriel died because she failed him.
She had replayed their final mission endlessly, wondering what command she should have given differently and what maneuver might have saved him.
The guilt became unbearable.
Eventually she resigned from the military and
