After Vocational Specialist Suzanne Bennett’s friend Mercy is murdered and Mercy’s son David vanishes, Suzanne is targeted by The Cadre, a crime syndicate for what she knows of their work trafficking children. When she seeks help from Brotherhood Protectors, she is paired with a handsome but troubled man who guards his own secrets.
Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Kristopher Brower can’t let go of the guilt over his former partner’s death when they were cops. Now a Brotherhood Protectors’ assignment has him investigating the murder of his partner’s widow and the vanishing of her son. Paired up with Suzanne Bennett, the widow’s friend, he is forced to deal with past issues as he fights for the future of exploited children while trying to ignore his attraction for Suzanne. Will they find David and the other children or become The Cadre’s next victims?