The warm fall day starts like any other at The Center - a women's reproductive health services clinic. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, rushes to the scene. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages, he glances at it, and to his horror, finds out that his fifteen year old daughter, Wren, is inside. Provocative, timely and gripping.