he warm fall day starts like any other at the Center — a women’s reproductive health services clinic — its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. 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 the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard Abortion Moral and ethical aspects Abortion Moral and ethical aspects Fiction Abortion services Abortion services Fiction Avortement Aspect moral Romans, nouvelles, etc Birth control clinics Cliniques d’avortement Romans, nouvelles, etc Domestic terrorism Domestic terrorism Fiction FICTION Contemporary Women FICTION Literary FICTION Sagas Family planning services Family planning services Fiction Femmes Santé et hygiène Fiction Fictional Work Hostage negotiations Hostage negotiations Fiction Hostages Hostages Fiction Négociations pour la libération d’otages Romans, nouvelles, etc Novels Otages Romans, nouvelles, etc Romans Services de planification familiale Romans, nouvelles, etc Suspense fiction Terrorisme intérieur Romans, nouvelles, etc Terrorists Thriller fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Thrillers (Fiction.) Women Women Health and hygiene Women’s Health Women’s health services Women’s health services Fiction Women’s rights(Fiction, )