A missing pilot. A fragile ceasefire. A secret that could restart the war.

Lieutenant Commander Jessie “Swagger” Hampton has vanished. His F-35 was shot down over North Korea, but with no body recovered and no proof of survival, Washington has little appetite for an operation that could ignite another conflict.

His wife, Lieutenant Commander Sarah “Danger” Freeman, refuses to give up on him. Returning to the cockpit of her E-2D Hawkeye, Sarah flies assigned missions and isolates a cluster of ghost transmissions buried beneath the clutter—micro-burst signals that match no known allied signatures. When CIA officer Dallas Steele begins pulling at the same thread, scattered intelligence points to something far more dangerous than a missing aviator.

Operating deep within the shadows of North Korea is an adversary who knows precisely how to evade America’s most sophisticated surveillance. As Sarah and Steele race to uncover the truth, the search for one pilot threatens to expose a hidden reality that could shatter the fragile peace on the Korean peninsula and plunge the Pacific theater into full-scale war.

Finding the truth about Jessie Hampton is no longer just a search for a missing pilot. America’s military advantage may depend on it.