When Sara Nardell and Peter Wellington meet with a man telling a tale of an upscale brothel in Manhattan, it disrupts the easy life of reunion that Sara and Frank Revere have enjoyed. Sara joins Peter's U.N. Special Operations team, and discovers a world rampant with sex trafficking and computer hackers, from Vancouver to China. A seemingly simple mission becomes shrouded in deception and hides a Chinese government-sanctioned group known only as The Elders.