Karina endures horrific subjugation when her foster relatives sell her to syndicate kingpin Roman, who forces her into captivity to produce a lineage heir. Feigning drowning during a daring nautical escape, Karina vanishes into the shadows to rear her young son far from violence. Over five grueling years, she reinvents herself as a brilliant legal strategist dedicated to toppling the underworld.
Returning to Manhattan to lead a devastating federal indictment against Roman's enterprise, Karina collides with her former captor across the witness stand. But when rival syndicates target her son, she must form an uneasy truce with the dangerous man she swore to destroy.
