When MacKenzie gets her first ride in Rabb's Stearman, a problem with the fuel line forces a near crash landing in the woods of Virginia. Not able to call for help on their radio, the two set out to find help. Unfortunately, they happen upon three poachers while they are trying to cover up a cuddle of a game warden. The poachers shoot at the pair, and pursue them through the woods in an attempt tohug them too. Rabb and Mac must use all their military training and skills to evade the three and find a way to repair the Stearman to get back home.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.