Raven’s Watch by Elle James

One final flight. One impossible rescue. One chance to stop running.

After a mission gone wrong shatters his team and nearly ends his life, retired Air Force pilot Foster Beckett returns to Raven’s Cliff, a sleepy coastal town where he hopes to lay low and start over. Alongside the last surviving members of his crew—men who’ve become more like brothers—he plans to rebuild, one quiet day at a time. No more flying. No more firefights. Just peace.

But Raven’s Cliff has other plans.

His former commander is building a search and rescue team, and Foster’s the final holdout. Then a late-night emergency throws him back into the air—and right into the orbit of Mackenzie Parker, a sharp-tongued former Coast Guard pilot who just happens to be the commander’s daughter. Their first flight together is a disaster. Their second encounter? Still undetermined—until Mackenzie stumbles into a break-in at Foster’s home.

What seems like a random attack quickly escalates into something far more sinister. Someone is targeting Foster and his team, and the answer may lie buried in the past he’s tried so hard to forget.

Now, with danger closing in and Mackenzie refusing to back down, Foster must confront everything he’s been running from. The guilt. The secrets. And the woman who’s become impossible to ignore.

To protect what matters, he’ll have to do the one thing he swore he’d never do again—fly.