To save her, he must become the evil he fights.

Aftercare specialist Willow Metcalfe joined Mission: Liberate Everyone to help trafficking survivors navigate the healing process. When MiLE's Obioma Compound is attacked by the Nigerian mafia, she's taken hostage. Against nightmarish odds, she and the victims attempt an escape-and are thwarted.

A decade after leaving his beloved homeland, Chijioke "Chiji" Okorie returns to find his sister and fight for his own country. Believing a global trafficking ring behind her abduction and a string of kidnappings across Nigeria, he goes undercover to find the head of the serpent and his sister. Chiji is stunned to discover among the hostages a familiar face-a friend's sister, Willow. The woman he vowed years ago to marry.

The man who has interfered with her escape attempts seems ... familiar, kind-but Willow knows better. He reeks of the warrior ethos that has devoured many a good man. Engaged in an impossible battle and losing at every turn, Chiji is determined to complete his missions-all of them. Even if it kills him.