Loyalty to a cause has a high price. Aleksei kws it all too well. He paid it as a child, and it will haunt him for the rest of his life. Now, on a mission far from home, everything he has ever believed in, everything he has been taught, that he has killed for, is going to be challenged. From sun-warmed coast of California to the frozen plains of Siberia, a costly war will be waged. Allies will turn into enemies, brother will fight brother, and only the strongest and bravest will survive the turning of the world. Will Aleksei have what it takes? Or will he fall to the enemy's wrath?