When her best friend goes missing after being targeted by child groomers, Tess Robertson feels she has no choice but to run away. Fearing for her life, she leaves the children's home where she's lived for the past eighteen months, and boards a train bound for the capital.

While wandering the streets of London, Tess realises she is being followed, causing her to run once again-straight into the path of a bullet meant for arms dealer, Kolya Barinov.

While Tess recovers, Kolya vows to keep her safe: to give her a good life in return for saving his. But is this simply swapping one danger for another? Or could the path to true happiness begin with blood and bullets?