After Emily Ann Meade's husband dies in a fiery helicopter crash during the Gulf War, she vows never to become involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession . . . until she moves to Hawaii and meets charismatic F-16 pilot, Colonel Ted Foley. Although Ted is assigned to a squadron that has recently lost several pilots in unexplained air crashes, Emily is drawn to him by a sixth-sense connection. She allows her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can't afford the emotional mortgage. Emily is the first woman who has made Ted embrace life since his wife died of breast cancer. However, he must tread carefully through Emily's emotional minefields. Healing in shared confidences solidifies their relationship. When another air crash ignites Emily's worst fear, the relationship shatters. Fueled by an intuitive dream and by her skills as a former investigative reporter, Emily suspects a possible cause of the crashes. She tries to warn Ted, but his bruised ego overrides professional objectivity. He rejects her theory – and her. Emily must convince Ted of her theory before another pilot dies. Ultimately, Ted and Emily discover that grief, like joy, is finite, but love is infinite. YOUR GIFT TO ME shares the same subtle, but central, theme of the healing power of love and friendship to triumph over grief found in TOP GUN and STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Like THE NOTEBOOK, affirmation of the human spirit lingers beyond the final page of YOUR GIFT TO ME.