Fresh off a blood-soaked case in Los Angeles, Blade Raines returns to Chicago—and dives straight into hell.
 
An underground teenage fight ring is operating on the West Side, recruiting kids from foster homes and juvenile detention. Boys and girls, some as young as twelve, thrown into cages and told to bleed for money. It’s being run like a business—tight, quiet, protected. Raines suspects the rot runs high: a judge, a parole officer, even the heads of the foster system and juvie lockup. But suspicion ain’t proof—and proof’s what he needs.
 
So he builds a new team.
 
Dana “Dumpster Diver,” a rogue SIU investigator with a nose for digging up what others bury. She freelances for top dollar and dirty clients—but Raines has leverage. Then there’s Jonathan Jones, a baby-faced rookie benched after an accidental K-9 shooting. Looks sixteen. Moves quiet. No one would suspect he’s working undercover inside a crooked foster home. Raines throws him into the fire.
 
But this case cuts deeper than the rest.
 
Back when Blade still believed in the system, he joined the Big Brother program and took a kid under his wing. Smart. Tough. Full of heart. The kind of kid who could’ve led a movement—until his younger brother was murdered and the killer walked free on a technicality. That broke something in him. He switched sides. Now he runs one of the biggest criminal organizations on the South Side of Chicago.
 
He and Blade haven’t spoken in years—but every bruised, broken, or forgotten kid Raines meets drags that guilt back to the surface. Because Blade didn’t just lose that boy.
 
He helped create what he became.
 
This isn’t justice anymore.
It’s personal.
It’s a reckoning.
 
New Breed. New Bloodline. All Dog.
And when these pups smell blood, they lock on the throat—and don’t let go.