The Emergency Room is part war zone, part insane asylum, and not all of the victims are patients delivered by red lights and sirens. Sarah Jones is one of the best ER nurses in the business. Tragedy and mayhem are daily occurrences in her world; shootings, stabbings, motorcycle accidents, spousal beatings, heart attacks; she sees it all. So are split second decisions and life-saving procedures.

When the mayhem strikes too close to home, the fallout is unavoidable. A man blows his brains out two feet from Sarah’s station, drenching her in blood, and requiring six weeks of HIV cocktails. The murder victim in a murder-suicide is special friend, and Sarah blames herself for not doing more to save her. A favorite patient banishes Sarah from his life when she doesn’t help him die. The dominoes fall one after another, eating away at all that Sarah holds dear. Drug and sexual addiction are all part of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that follows. And then, the ultimate tragedy befalls her…