Liam Hale was imprisoned for his father, mastering martial arts. On release, his ex-girlfriend Sloane Sullivan treated him coldly; her stepdaughter Zara Sterling proposed. An absurd tangle: his ex-girlfriend would be his mother-in-law, marrying her stepdaughter. He investigates the Hale family's annihilation, uncovers conspiracies, confronts the Nether Society, avenges his father, and protects loved ones.