Goodreads asked Mary Davis:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Mary Davis My agent asked if I had a WWII story idea that might fit in with Barbour’s Heroines of WWII series. I had to tell her I didn’t. At the time, I was writing one book and proofing audio chapters for another. My time was strapped, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to tackle war, but I told my agent I would think on it and pray. If the Lord wanted me to write a WWII era story, He would have to give me an idea. So I prayed.
I knew women had done some military flying but didn’t know the details, so I jumped into some quick research. An idea started forming with a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). I wrote a brief one-page outline of my rough idea. I knew I couldn’t take too much time away from my contracted project to write a whole proposal if I was going to be told the publisher already had a story in the series about a WASP, which I assumed they had. Because who wouldn’t want to write about lady pilots?
Well, they didn’t and wanted to see a full proposal. I wrote it up as quickly as I could, and well…as they say, the rest is history.

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