The second book of Air Rescue Stories titled: “The Girlfriend I Almost Lost,” is a love story, action-adventure novel about the exploits of Air Rescue Special Forces Commando Jimmy West, known as “the stealth warrior,” for his nighttime rescue tactics. The story begins in Fells Point, Maryland with Jimmy rescuing a woman from being raped by three men. Months later, Jimmy meets Phyllis at her dental practice when he schedules an appointment to have a tooth fixed from a right hook during a martial arts training class. They started dating and she falls madly in love with his European charm, not knowing that the international company he works for is Air Rescue, and he is in real life a Special Forces Commando. Phyllis gets so infatuated with him that she proposes to Jimmy and he politely tells her “no” because of his secret life. Feeling rejected, Phyllis and her girlfriend Jen go to Cancun only to have their airplane hijacked by the Drug Lord DeCruz and flown to Columbia for ransom. Jimmy puts together an Air Rescue Team of specialists and rescues her and the other passengers. But, it’s a surprised Phyllis who finds out its Jimmy’s love for her that was the real reason he rescued her.