She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall?

It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine—and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn’t do it without her. The three siblings made a the three of them would solve the problem of human flight.

As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sand beaches of North Carolina, Katharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materials, managed communications, and kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal—even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of humankind.

What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.

Tracey Enerson Wood loves discovering amazing women whose stories have been lost to history, and bringing them to life for today’s readers.

An internationally and USA Today best-selling author, Tracey is eagerly awaiting publication of Katharine, the Wright Sister, her fourth novel. Due out in September, 2024, the book shines a light on the woman who was the mastermind behind her brothers’ famous invention, the airplane.

Her most recently released novel,The President’s Wife, tells the tale of Edith Bolling Wilson and her whirlwind romance and marriage to Woodrow Wilson. This fascinating and complex character is sometimes thought of as our first woman U.S. president.

Tracey’s debut novel, The Engineer’s Wife, is about the woman who despite tremendous obstacles completed the Brooklyn Bridge. Following that is The War Nurse, the unforgettable story of Julia Stimson and her nurses in WW1 France. All four novels are published by Sourcebooks.

Tracey has always had a writing bug. While working as a Registered Nurse, starting her own Interior Design company, raising two children, and bouncing around the world as a military wife, she indulged in her writing passion. She has authored screenplays, magazine columns and articles, web content, and other non-fiction, and written and directed plays of all lengths.

Other passions include food and cooking, and honoring military heroes.

Her co-authored anthology/cookbook Homefront Cooking, American Veterans share Recipes, Wit, and Wisdom, was released by Skyhorse Publishing and all authors’ profits are donated to organizations that support veterans. Life Hacks for Military Spouses is her latest non-fiction release, also an anthology from Skyhorse.

A New Jersey native, she now lives with her family in Florida.