Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning from Iraq with an �other than honourable� discharge, he�s finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet.

Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago�s prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She�s ready for anything the job can throw at her.

Until Jason�s brother, a prominent communityt activist, is murdered in front of his own son.

Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city�s power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child � and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.