The Repair

Book Two of the Prayers in the Air series by Dennis Santaniello.

Winter, 1917. A German pilot falls from the sky into a small French farm and stops a horror inside the house. By morning, the family owes him a life.

Mathilde puts it in her journal. Her father calls it a debt. Her mother calls it madness.

The pilot is Ernst, an ace with blood on his hands and no way home. His engine is ruined. Soldiers are closing in. If the family repairs his plane, he will fly again. If he flies again, someone will die. Maybe the man Mathilde loves.

Snow piles up. Tools hit the table. Every bolt turned is a choice. The farm turns into a workshop, a sickroom, and a reckoning. Mercy meets fear. Honor costs more than anyone expected. The sky waits.

The Repair is a lean, breath-holding historical novel about debt, mercy, and the price of a soul. It continues the world of Prayers in the Air, which began with Sergei and Hans, and it also reads well on its own.