Ever since her beloved husband Jack, a stockbroker with Cantor-Fitzgerald, died in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Nine-Eleven, Rusty Jackson Nale has led a hollow existence, deprived of love and companionship. And now in 2008 she faces her own mortality as a result of her rescue and recovery work in the rubble of the Twin Towers. Coaxed into attending a college reunion by her sorority sister, Rusty reluctantly goes back to her alma mater...