Sweet December

Melissa Davenport reached the top of her profession as the first woman to fly fighter jets for the US, and she set romance aside to get there. Then Brian Newburg, the engineering classmate who once helped her study, asks how she plans to mark her fiftieth birthday. That question brings back a promise they made in college: if neither of them has married by fifty, they will marry each other.

Brian spent a rewarding period at NASA and now works as an aerodynamics engineer. He is ready for another change and wants Melissa, now a general known for her toughness, to come along on what he hopes will be his next great venture. She is not ready to walk away from a career she gave up so much for. Still, Brian stirs something in her that she cannot ignore.