On a warm May night in San Fransisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance.The evening is perfect-until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway...
In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge...Sarah Sloane, the wife of a financial whiz, watches her perfect world fall to pieces...
Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free comes to a turning point in her life career.
Photographer Everett Carson finds new purpose amid the carnage...and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who works with the homeless, searches through the rubble - and knows that there is much to be done...
As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors...Sarah discovers a crime and a betrayal, then a strength she never knew she had. Volunteering at a refuge camp opens new worlds of possibility for Melanie. Everett will forge an unlikely relationship with Maggie, who helps him rebuild his snattered life-and upends her own in the process. And as a year passes, each disvcovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy's wake...and the amazing grace of new beginnings...