Mason Walker has always been a man of few words. And ever since his days in the Navy SEALS, it had been ingrained in him to just keep his mouth shut and get the job done. Since the passing of his wife and the mother of his child, Mason had retreated even further inward. But now, there was someone new in his life that was methodically picking away at his icy exterior. Her name was Raina, and although they had worked alongside each other for years in the private contractor outfit called Onyx, Mason was just now opening up enough to allow her to get close. Perhaps, it was the fact that his daughter, Clara, had just left the nest to attend Stanford that encouraged him to make the leap, but Mason had opened his heart to the chance of love once again. It wasn’t easy for him, but he was finally learning to give and receive a kind of affection he thought that he had lost forever. It was right when Mason opened himself up to the vulnerability of these intense emotions that seven girls go missing from Clara’s school and one turns up dead. There is something evil lurking in the background of Mason’s new attempt at living a happy and loving life, and as his own daughter gets mixed up with a sex trafficking ring, his entire world threatens to come crashing down on him.