Eightball Two-Three (Wings of Gold #0.5)
Tracy Tappan

Until everything goes horribly wrong.
Fresh from the cockpit of his near-death solo flight, Eric makes it to graduation, only to find that he is a lone man in a sea of his buddies’ celebrating relatives. He finds solace in the arms of a most unlikely woman the night before shipping out to San Diego…and learns more about himself than he ever planned.
Content warning: contains profanity and adult situations.
**EIGHTBALL TWO-THREE is an introductory novella to the Wings of Gold series. Young, swaggering, and full of their ability to change the world, Eric O’Dwyer and Kyle Hammond are mere shadows of the men and aviators they’ll become in the first two full-length Wings of Gold novels.
In the first full-length book of the series, BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY, Eric O’Dwyer is now a senior lieutenant in command of his own helicopter detachment. Deployed off the coast on a counterdrug operation, Eric will face the most challenging mission of his life with DEA Agent Nicole Gamboa.