The Promise

The Promise relates the life of a retired Air Force Colonel pilot, James P. Gordon, who never married and is settling into a completely new lifestyle. The only love of his life, Samantha Marissen, the daughter of an extremely wealthy self-made businessman, Ed Marissen, who took a small manufacturing company and turned it into an aerospace giant, Marissen Aerospace.

Early on, the young Air Force Captain met and fell in love with Samantha Marrisen and the two became quite an item, so much so, that Ed Marissen determined to put an end to the relationship. After more than twenty years, the now retired Air Force pilot is thrust into world events as his life crosses paths with his lost love once again.

Samantha Marissen, recently divorced from an emotionally and physically abusive man, fled the country as a means of escape from her father and relief from the horrors of the legal destruction of her character by her ex-husband during the divorce. She is arrested in an unstable foreign country and charged as a spy in an unwarrented retaliatory act against the United States. She is help captive for trial far from her estranged family with only her love of God and the protection of a sympathetic soldier.

James Gordon, a man with no family yet still strong in his faith, is called to lay his life on the line to bring Samantha home. Her time of captivity and his period of intense training prove their love still strong as both overcome serious obstacles to remain alive. Unknown to Samantha is the love and concern of the friends she and Jim shared during their time together she thought long-forgotten who pray for her safe return with James Gordon.

James Gordon experiences the opportunity to be the hero for the woman he loves, something many men dream of. His many years as an Air Force pilot reward him with the ability to do so.