The story starts with a terrifying sexual attack on the author at her Manhattan apartment. While the attack takes place she "escapes" in her mind by flashing back on her life from her horribly abusive childhood, through her life of fitness and beauty, and on to her romances, marriage and her son, up to the moment she is suffering this horrifying eighty-five-minute-long attack.

Once the attack ends, we hear about the aftermath of the attack that leads to her spinning out of control into a high-stakes world of gambling where she quickly gets in way over her head and to survive makes the desperate decision to rob banks. These riveting true-life events culminate in her capture and her being sent to federal prison with an ending that will leave you--FEELING REAL.