Spitfire: Love, Desire, and Courage in a World at War

In 1944, American fighter pilot Jack Cherry is flying a P-51 Mustang over war-torn France, where every mission could be his last. Far from his family and the New Mexico ranch where he grew up, Jack carries with him memories of home - and of Tomás, the handsome boy next door who awakened something in him long before he understood what it meant. When Jack's Mustant, Bad Penny, is damaged and the American ground crew cannot repair it, they turn to Luc Boucher, a gifted French mechanic with a reputation for being able to fix anything. Scarred by war, missing part of a leg, and haunted by devastating loss, Luc wants little to do with the Americans - or with the irrepressible young pilot who refuses to be intimidated by him. Jack and Luc clash from the moment they meet. But working side by side through long nights, air raids, danger and exhaustion, hostility gradually gives way to trust - and to an attraction neither can safely acknowledge. >Spitfire is a sweeping wartime love story of courage, family, desire and sacrifice, set against the danger and uncertainty of World War II.