Aarav Anand, best friend, brother in arms, and partner in crime to Jeremiah Pearson finds himself mostly working alone in the United States while Jeremiah maintains a low profile with his woman India Richards in the Philippines. Aarav also finds himself afflicted with PTSD after being deployed to Russia and having a near-death experience that plagues him with nightmares of events that occurred that day. Things take a strange turn when he meets Stacy Winters, a seventeen-year-old whose birthday is just around the corner, but this doesn't stop her from trying to pull Aarav's attention to herself. Even though Aarav draws the line with her, he finds that getting rid of her is not as easy as he thought, and things come to a head on her eighteenth birthday that not only impacts his livelihood but his own emotions...