AMELIA AND HOWARD - Secrets of the Diary

What if everything you thought you knew about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance was a carefully crafted illusion?

In the glittering twilight of the 1930s, Amelia Earhart soared above the clouds and into legend; but beneath the champagne sparkle and newspaper headlines, America's most celebrated aviatrix was drowning.

Hidden behind the public facade was a woman haunted by secrets: a failing marriage, a devastating struggle with alcohol, and crippling doubts about her own abilities. As her world unraveled, she found solace in the arms of the secretive tycoon and aviator Howard Hughes.

Their passionate affair offered salvation—until an unexpected pregnancy forced an impossible choice in an unforgiving era. Through tear-stained pages, Earhart grapples with her love for Hughes, her guilt over a painful estrangement from her father, and her fierce devotion to her mother and sister.

The journals also capture Earhart’s encounters with some of the most iconic figures of her time—Charles A. Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and screen siren Jean Harlow—offering an intimate portrait of a woman both shaped by and defying the constraints of her era.

Together with Hughes, she devised history's most daring disappearance, transforming July 2, 1937 from a tragic mystery into a masterful escape to start a new life far from fame’s prying eyes.

From glittering 1930's parties to hidden sanctuaries in Mexico and Switzerland, this is the story of how Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes built a life—and a family—on their own terms.