For thousands of years man watched with envy as the birds soared effortlessly in the skies above. He was confined to the ground, unable to unlock Nature's secrets to the mystery of flight. Even after the industrial revolution was well underway, the solution to the mystery eluded him. Then in 1903, after four years of systematic, scientific research, two unknown brothers from Dayton, Ohio, found the answer. On December 17, 1903, on the sandy shores of North Carolina's Outer Banks, these two men became the first people to fly.

Orville and Wilbur were more than just faces in old photographs. They come alive in this historical novel.