Three simple rules:

• Listen, obey, and never resist.
• Never lie or steal from family.
• Do whatever it takes to bring home the cash.

One frightening consequence: The sexual assault and prostitution of his little brother.

Angel Harris’ nightmare began the day he was born to addict parents in the city slums…and didn’t end for eighteen years. For fifteen of those years, the only light in his dark world has been his little brother, Maddy—the only reason Angel continues to survive…and sacrifice himself.

Trapped in an abusive situation for which there seems no escape, Angel must protect Maddy from the same hellish existence Angel has suffered at the hands of their “enterprising” stepbrother, Wade. For now, Wade is content to use Maddy as leverage to control Angel. But for how long? Things are changing. Wade is changing…and not for the better.

When Wade sends Angel into The Phoenix Club—a posh gay strip club—to pose as a stripper and discreetly proposition the wealthy clientele, Angel meets Dane, a beautiful older dancer who immediately becomes enamored with the mysterious young man. For the first time in his life, Angel learns about passion and love, falling for the man with his whole heart.

As Angel starts to hope that maybe someone cares enough to help him and Maddy escape their life of hell—he is blindsided with the horrifying revelation that none of it was real, no one cares, and the nightmare is worse than ever before…and there is only one way out.

Maddy is ready to go. But after a lifetime of protecting his little brother, keeping him alive, is Angel capable of taking that final step?

TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual abuse. Child sex trafficking. Physical and psychological abuse.