Crooked LA deputy Bradley Jones and his pregnant wife, the charismatic songwriter Erin McKenna, are brutally attacked in their home -- and Erin is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, head of a powerful drug cartel. He tells Jones the ransom is $1 million to get his wife back or she'll be skinned alive. In his Yucatán stronghold, Armenta tells Erin that if she is to survive, she must compose Mexican folk ballads romanticizing his daring drug dealings.

Jones turns to fellow deputy Charlie Hood for help in retrieving Erin and paying the ransom. Who will be the one to rescue the woman they both love?

This fifth outing for Charlie Hood takes some dark and dangerous turns as he deals with the evil that men thrust upon on each other -- and the innocent people who get caught in the crossfire.