Katharine, The Wright Sister

She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright,both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave homejumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in DaytonOhio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their successa new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine–and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sisterKatharineknew they couldn’t do it without her. The three siblings made a pact: the three of them would solve the problem of human flight. As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sand beaches of North CarolinaKatharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materialsmanaged communicationsand kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal–even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903the Wright brothers made the first controlledsustained flight of humankind. What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their inventiontrained other pilotsand built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their successtragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson WoodKatharinethe Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in historyand the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.