Jo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband's jewelry shop and mercilessly bullied by her evil mother-in-law, she is trying to get her life back together again. But when the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East end's most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl?before it is too late. To get her back, she'll have to join forces with damaged but handsome bad boy Gabe Miller, a man who has a dark past of his own.