Stephen Jarrell
Published Books
Eagle Wing Lodge
In the fall of 1944, First Lieutenant Joe Smith navigates a secret mission across a storm-cursed sky, ferrying a cargo of Nazi gold from war-torn Europe to San Francisco. When his B-24 bomber clips a mountain ridge and vanishes into the Sierra Nevada wilderness, he becomes one of history's forgotten ghosts—a mystery that will outlast him by generations.Decades later, Professor Hunter Smith—aviation archaeologist, instinctive dreamer, and Joe's great-grandson—returns to his family's Eagle Wings Lodge nestled above a high-desert lake. Between leading hiking tours, solving a military drone disappearance, and falling deeper in love with the brilliant and guarded Katie, Hunter begins receiving vivid, impossibly detailed dreams that carry him back into the cockpit of his great-grandfather's doomed bomber. The past is not just speaking to him—it is pulling him toward a discovery that will reshape everything he knows about his family, the lodge, and the woman he loves.Eagle Wings Lodge is a richly layered multigenerational saga that weaves World War II adventure, small-town secrets, and a tender love story into a gripping mystery of loss, legacy, and destiny. From the jungles of Brazil to the glaciers of Bolden Peak, from the quiet shores of Eagle Wings Lake to the frozen cockpit of a long-lost Mustang, every clue leads Hunter closer to the truth his great-grandfather never lived to tell.Part historical thriller, part family saga, part ghost story of the living and the dead, Eagle Wings Lodge is a sweeping, emotionally resonant novel about what we inherit from those who came before us—and what, perhaps, they have been waiting all along for us to find.