Angela, one of only three women in the USA who own an ambulance company, serves a city of 250,000 and contiguous suburbs of another 250,000. She is updating her equipment, getting her employees trained according to the new EMT standards, and thinks all is well, until the city oversight committee finds out grant money is available for city-owned services. Ride along on ambulance runs; join in a search and rescue in the mountains where a plane crashed; feel her frustration at being unable to please the committee, as they pursue their goal of putting her out of business. Feel her fear when she is shot at, then learns her son is being stalked. Angela, based on the author's experiences, deals with life as she lived it in the 1970s and made the decisions necessary to remain true to herself.