"Murray has always known how to suppress his pain. In the shadows of a predawn run, a man tries to escape what he can't control: his failed marriage. Grief. Even his own weakness. Murray is a college running coach insistent on his relentless training regimen and obsessed with his star athlete - until he finds her crumpled and unresponsive during a routine practice one morning. Unable to avoid or outrun realit, Murray is forced to face the consequences of a terrible accident from the past... and his own increasingly tenuous grip on life" -- Page 4 of cover.