SUMMARY

AJ must save a recently kidnapped boy headed to the black market while learning of a lurking danger to those he loves.

PREFACE

Young boys are missing from rural areas of New Mexico.

Albuquerque detective Sara Gray believes they may be linked, but has no jurisdiction. AJ agrees to look into it, then soon learns of a missing man whose best friend, a prominent architect, Tommy Chacon, was the last to see him.

After AJ discovers a windowless building with a steel door in Chacon's backyard, clues that point to buried bodies emerge. Then, Sara Gray's nephew is kidnapped.

Closing in on the killer, AJ is unaware of the lurking danger from his past. a private insurgent who has a score to settle inserts himself into the game. manipulating chacon, the investigators, and even AJ's recently adopted daughter.