HOPE nounan expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen When her newfound happiness is suddenly ripped away, twenty-two-year-old Kyra is thrust into the cruel world of hardened arms dealer, Nathan Pierce. Her calculating kidnapper is a master in a game of leverage and abduction, whose power appears to have no limit. Confounded by an unexpected magnetism, Kyra's resolve unravels as she becomes engulfed in Nathan's dangerous world, even when she is terrorized by his inner demons. Is Kyra holding on to the distorted hope of an impossible future or can she find light beyond the darkness?