Former police officer Bella Caruso has been searching for fourteen-year-old Hope Anderson who was sold to a group of human traffickers by her stepfather. Bella has infiltrated a group that is expanding their territory east and things are getting dicey for her. When her brother, J.T. Caruso, finds out that Bella's police contact was killed by the group, he asks for help from the FBI, DEA, and his own security company. FBI Special Agent Lucy Kincaid is assigned to a task force to rescue Bella and stop the traffickers. Finding Bella will not be easy, especially when Bella says she won't quit until she finds hope.

This is the 13th book in the Lucy Kincaid series. Lucy has been doing "busy work" assigned by her new boss who doesn't seem to like Lucy at all. Even though she has not complained about any assignment, Lucy can't seem to win over her new supervisor. I liked this storyline. Though the new supervisor, Rachel Vaughn, has some reason to be upset with Lucy, she is over-the-top in her methods of dealing with it. When the FBI's top brass assigns Lucy to the task force without consulting Rachel, it looks like their relationship will never recover.

A lot of the story is about Bella and the group she has infiltrated. I thought she took too many dumb chances. She had the chance to be rescued early in the book; but turned it down thinking she would get more information about Hope. That drove me a bit crazy. My rating: 4 Stars.

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