It's 2am on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's East Village, questioning her life. She meets Grant, and over the next several hours she and Grant forge an unlikely connection. But their timing couldn't be worse—Grant is preparing to take leave from his job and travel overseas. Yet despite all the obstacles, they can't seem to say goodbye, and for the first time in her carefully constructed life, Cecily follows her heart instead of her head. Then Grant goes missing in the chaos of 9/11. Fearing the worst, Cecily spots his face on a poster and realizes she is not the only one searching for him. Her investigative reporting instincts kick into action as she vows to discover the truth. But the questions pile up quickly: How well did she really know Grant? And is it possible to love a man who wasn't what he seemed to be?