In July of 1944, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots struggles to land an A-24 dive bomber whose engine suddenly burst into flames. A week later, another WASP finds her life threatened when the rudder cables of a BT-13 training plane snap mid flight. The plane goes into a deadly spin and she prepares to jump, only to find her canopy jammed. Is it sabotage or mechanical failure? The work of Nazi sympathizers or washed out US Army pilots? In The Woman in the Wing, a suspense thriller, Charlotte Mercer is a WASP trainee who hopes to fly for her country. Charlotte's career nearly ends before it begins when an army major removes her from training after she refuses his proposition to do something other than fly. Ordered to work at a defense plant with the FBI, she meets her new riveting partner, agent Eleanor Frazier. Char's job description changes from pilot to Rosie the Riveter to undercover agent after a ring of German spies. The dedicated pilot never gives up hope of earning her silver wings, even as she makes a perilous flight of her own with a Nazi demolitions expert holding a gun to the back of her head.