Author Elizabeth Crook launches her story with the 1966 bell tower shootings at the University of Texas. The reader feels Shelly's confusion as she watches a young student fall and then as she is struck as well. Cousins, Jack and Wyatt, rush to help the victims on the plaza. Shelly, as one of the first to be shot, feels herself dying, until Jack and Wyatt are able to move her to relative safety. When Jack rushes to help others, a bullet rips through his leg as well.
Crook's story focuses on the lives of Jack, Wyatt, and Shelly as they heal from the disaster. Shelly and Wyatt become close despite Wyatt's marriage. Shelly becomes pregnant, leaves Wyatt to preserve his family, and struggles with the decision to give the baby up for adoption.
The story spans the 40 years after the shooting in the lives of these characters and the lives of those they love.
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