Red Eye

Captain Ward Lassiter has spent six years being careful. He keeps his eyes on his paperback in the crew lounge, his hands to himself, and his thoughts about the two women who run the cabins on the charter fleet locked up tight where nobody can find them.Then a billionaire cancels at the last minute, a big-cabin jet has to fly home empty overnight, and Ward is the only passenger aboard.Lucía Ferrer has been trying to get him on one of her flights for a year. She is warm and loud and impossible to ignore, and she has opinions about the champagne nobody is going to drink. Freya Nilsen, her senior, is the ice-blue terror of every pilot in the company. She has a rule about her aircraft, and in six years Ward has never seen her break one.Somewhere over the dark middle of the country, he learns that the two of them share a hotel room on layovers. He learns that Freya once asked for his schedule. And he learns exactly what Freya's rules are, with the cockpit door shut, the interphone set to chime every forty minutes, and a stateroom in the back that pilots never get to see.Four hours to Teterboro. Two women who have clearly talked about this. And a careful man who is finally out of reasons to say no.