Months after the fight in the pits, veterinarian Sophie Carter is again all alone. Dumped by Jake Rowland, the man who offered her the world, and ignored by Louis Martinez, the man that saved her from the pits. Without warning, her dull life explodes when an arson attack destroys her clinic, almost killing Pothead, her strangely knowing clinic cat. As if summoned, both men return at the same time her father is finally released from prison. When her sister goes missing, Sophie needs Louis and Jake's connections to find her, except they have discovered her childhood secret, that once upon a time Sophie had a different name, and that her father made her hurt a man. That man's son has dedicated his life to eradicating human scum, secretly hunting down the family that ruined his. That man is an undercover cop who is lost in the violence. That man is Louis Martinez and he will have his revenge.Uncertain where to turn, Sophie finds herself back at her family farm with her mother, a deluded animal abuser awaiting her husband, a man determined to return to his old life. With Louis and Jake hunting her down, Sophie will discover if either man is capable of being the person she needs. And what does the clinic cat, Pothead have to do with the fire that ruined her lovely life.