She needs him. He wants her. Together they heat up the ring...

Big Jimmy’s House of Pain is an old-school boxing gym in Manhattan, run by an old-school guy named--what else?--Big Jimmy. He’s charismatic, loud, and loving. For the last 25 years, he’s also been a foster father, taking in the worst behaved children in the New York City system and reforming them through the love of the sport of boxing. Gennifer Rodriguez is a member of Big Jimmy's rag tag family of outcasts and the only female fighter at House of Pain.

When she meets Mikhail, a recent transplant to New York City, at House of Pain, sparks immediately fly. After he bests her in the ring, he tells her exactly what he wants from her. Gennifer agrees, on one condition--that he train her for an upcoming charity competition.

But when Gennifer’s match takes a violent turn, Mikhail reveals his secret dark side. The stone cold Russian is out for blood…but at what cost?