Kathy Gibbons is in a loveless marriage, and now her daughter is gone. How could her husband, Calvin do the unthinkable? How can she go on?

Twenty years pass, and Nina Gallaway falls in love with a drummer, Bruno. Her disease slowly takes over and she is committed to the O'Hanagan Hospital.

Determined to help her, the head nurse becomes fixated on rekindling their past. Can the future of this young couple be changed? What must she do to change her own?

The threaded lives of the characters unfold in this gritty and realistic crime novel. The psychological twists and turns are weaved within the relationships that range from abandonment to love to dysfunction.

This is a world where criminals, according to the law, are sentenced to the same place. Is this really where they belong?