Bill Gordon boards a red-eye flight to L. A. after receiving a frantic phone call from his Nice Beth Ann Fletcher. A commuter flight returning to LA from Las Vegas crashes in the mountains with no survivors, including Beth Ann's parents. Since Bill is related through marriage only and Beth Ann has no other living relatives, California is going to place her in foster care. She and Bill love each other and want to be together, but the DHF refuses because he is not blood-related, so the battle begins between Bill and a seemingly heartless Bureaucracy.

The author is a space program veteran, working side-by-side with astronauts on the Apollo program, preparing the spacecraft for flight. He became an instructor on the Space Shuttle program, teaching technicians how to install and repair shuttle components.

After leaving the space program, he began writing fiction novels and has not limited his writing to one genre, following his imagination wherever it may go.