Audio Book Description:
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers fora charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect-until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glassshatters. And as the lights go out,people begin to scream...In the earthquake`s aftermath,the lives of four strangers will converge...Sarah Sloane,the beautiful wife of afinancial whiz, watches her perfect world fall to pieces...Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free, the event`s headliner, comes to a turning pointin her life and career...Photographer Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering societyparties, finds new purpose amidthe carnage...and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who normally works in jeans and high-tops with the homeless, searchesthrough the rubble-and knows instantly that there is much workto be done... As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary eventswill touch each of the survivors...For Sarah, it begins with the discovery of a crime and a betrayal, then a strength she never knew she had. For Melanie,volunteering at a refugee camp will open new worlds of possibility. And Everett will beshaken by the unlikely relationship he forges with Maggie, whohelps him rebuild his shatteredlife-andupends her own in the process. But as a year passes, and the anniversary of the earthquake approaches, moresurprises are in store-as each discoversthe unexpected gifts ina tragedy`s wake...and the amazing grace of new beginnings.
