l it quits as he nears the end of his medical training. Years of continuous hard work and the specter of tragedy following him from his time as a Marine have taken a heavy toll and his physical and emotional reserves are spent. In the nick of time, an opportunity for a mission trip to Honduras seems like just the ticket to rekindle a long dead spark of passion and adventure; and to escape the day-to-day drudgery of his life as a resident physician. While there, he and a pragmatic service missionary named Eliza are violently sucked into the vast criminal underworld infecting the region. To save themselves from being trafficked, Gideon will have to embrace the military experience he'd forsaken and confront the ghosts that drove him away. Will it be enough, or will he lose what little of his self-identity remains?