A Perfectly Sound Woman

Forty-four people die when a wing leaves a turboprop over an Indiana soybean field, and the federal report blames the captain — Ellen Carter's husband. Ellen is the best fracture analyst in Ohio, and the metal tells a different story: a crack that grew for two years beneath a plate no mechanic could lift. Stripped of her job, her reputation, and nearly her son, she has one witness left that cannot be bribed. Steel remembers everything it was asked to carry.