How do you stop a killer when the victims are desperate to die?After witnessing a brutal event he was never meant to see, Captain Ozzy Stone served four years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now released to pick up the broken pieces of his life, the ex-soldier turned convict finds a nasty surprise waiting in his hometown: his former cellmate, Roman Blade.Blade, a disgraced hacker with a complicated past, is working security at a BDSM fantasy club when Stone shows up to ruin his life -- again. His employer hires Stone as a bouncer, and Blade makes it his personal mission to put the man through hell at work until he can take permanent revenge for what Stone did to him in prison.But when a killer kidnaps a young woman who works at the club -- and someone's playing pin-the-blame on the ex-cons -- Stone and Blade are forced to work together to clear their names. Their reluctant partnership uncovers an organized network of voluntary death by torture, wrapped in a conspiracy that penetrates the top levels of the military.And time is running out as they race to rescue a woman who doesn't want to be saved.