Dead Awake — Mark Brown

Set against a world on the brink of war, Matthew Woodbine enlists in the Air Force, where he meets Katherine Hampton, a beautiful and brash young woman who steals his heart, much to the dismay of his mother and childhood sweetheart. But Kat has unknowingly spurned the advances of an unbalanced and rich young son of a Blue Blood from Boston who will stop at nothing to either claim Kat as his own, or make sure no one else can have her. Realizing Matthew and Kat have a natural talent for flying, they become test pilots for a new and Top Secret experimental training program called SET. But their dream of living a simple life together is not to be. Not only do they find themselves racing against time to keep one step ahead of Kat's rejected suitor, but also in a race that could mean the end of their world as they know it.