Hollow Plans

Molly Fitzgerald was two months old on September 11, 2001, when her mother left for an appointment at the World Trade Center and never returned.

Raised with real love by her father and stepmother, she still carried a lifelong dread of catastrophe into her work as head of the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, where she charts how to spare lives in storms, epidemics, and plane crashes.

Her husband, Jesse, a police polygraph expert marked by crisis of his own, has become her shelter in a world that never feels finished with danger.

Then an unforeseen shock splits open their new marriage, and the stories they have trusted begin to fail.

Shifting between past and present, Molly is left to reckon with the safeguards built for the worst day, the falsehoods that shape a family, and the enduring tie between mothers and daughters.