In Creighton Zee's line of work, you make your friends happy, and your enemies, if they survive, very angry. He and his friends have roused the anger of people so bitterly evil and unimaginably violent, that even his elite team may be helpless against their onslaught. Meanwhile, he and Natalia have roused the love of a young woman they rescued in the past, who goes to the trouble of crossing the country to find them. They find themselves in a tangle with their consciences, their desires, and with their most vicious, deadly enemies yet.