Torn From the Sky
(2026)(The eighth book in the Wind River Romances series)
A novel by Susan Leigh Carlton
Torn From the Sky: A Wind River Time-Travel Romance (Book 8)
Two Navy test pilots. One impossible second. A past that was never meant to be theirs.
Lieutenants Cassidy ‘Cass’ Mercer and Eleanor Grant are among the best the U.S. Navy has to offer—elite test pilots trusted to fly at the edge of what’s possible. Cass relies on instinct and fearless improvisation. Ellie trusts precision, discipline, and the rules that keep pilots alive.
When a high-risk test flight ends in a catastrophic mid-air collision, survival isn’t an option.
It’s a miracle.
Plucked from their crippled aircraft in the final seconds before impact, Cass and Ellie awaken in the rugged frontier town of Wind River… in the 1870s. Stranded in a world without answers—and no clear path home—they quickly learn their survival came with a purpose.
Something in Wind River is about to go terribly wrong.
As the two women struggle to understand why they were sent''and what it will cost to change the course of events—Cass finds herself drawn to Deputy Luke Mercer, a man as steady as she is reckless. For the first time in her life, the idea of staying begins to feel less like surrender… and more like choice.
Ellie, determined to find a way back to her own time, refuses to be distracted—even as a quiet, thoughtful stranger begins to challenge everything she believes about control, certainty, and where she truly belongs.
But altering the past comes with consequences.
And saving one life may mean losing another future.
In a story of courage, sacrifice, and love that defies time itself, two women must decide not just how to survive—but where they belong.
Because sometimes, the life you were meant to live… is waiting in another century.
Genre: Romance
Two Navy test pilots. One impossible second. A past that was never meant to be theirs.
Lieutenants Cassidy ‘Cass’ Mercer and Eleanor Grant are among the best the U.S. Navy has to offer—elite test pilots trusted to fly at the edge of what’s possible. Cass relies on instinct and fearless improvisation. Ellie trusts precision, discipline, and the rules that keep pilots alive.
When a high-risk test flight ends in a catastrophic mid-air collision, survival isn’t an option.
It’s a miracle.
Plucked from their crippled aircraft in the final seconds before impact, Cass and Ellie awaken in the rugged frontier town of Wind River… in the 1870s. Stranded in a world without answers—and no clear path home—they quickly learn their survival came with a purpose.
Something in Wind River is about to go terribly wrong.
As the two women struggle to understand why they were sent''and what it will cost to change the course of events—Cass finds herself drawn to Deputy Luke Mercer, a man as steady as she is reckless. For the first time in her life, the idea of staying begins to feel less like surrender… and more like choice.
Ellie, determined to find a way back to her own time, refuses to be distracted—even as a quiet, thoughtful stranger begins to challenge everything she believes about control, certainty, and where she truly belongs.
But altering the past comes with consequences.
And saving one life may mean losing another future.
In a story of courage, sacrifice, and love that defies time itself, two women must decide not just how to survive—but where they belong.
Because sometimes, the life you were meant to live… is waiting in another century.
Genre: Romance
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