When Christine wakes up cold and alone she thinks life cannot possibly get worse. Crushing steel, broken glass, and familiar voices, is all that remain in her own personal hell that is her memory. Then her memory begins flooding back like a dam breaking and with it the terrible realization that Jake, the one person she cares about may be involved in her kidnapping. Then she realizes her ten year old son, Diego is not lying in the darkness beside her. Who could have kidnapped her and why would anyone take her son away from her? When her kidnappers do show up things are worse than she ever could have imagined. When she realizes who is the mastermind behind her abduction she has no misgivings about her odds of survival. Then things begin to change with Jake’s unprecedented success in the ring and finally his star is on the rise. He and Christine are closer than ever and it seems nothing can get in the way of their happy life; except for the past. Suddenly Christine is in a race against time to save her son and Jake will have to do something that goes against everything he believes in. Can he do it, and can he live with the consequences afterwards? No one is safe; not Christine, not Diego, Jake, or even the aging trainer. Punished will take you on a whirlwind ride through love, betrayal, success, and punishment and no one’s life will ever be the same. Christine soon learns who pulls the strings of her life and what she has to do to break free and be safe for the first time in years.