Clint Barstow was an orphan by the age of fourteen and managed to live on the streets of New York City by using his wits, charisma and a lucky break when mob boss Kenny Costellano hires him as a 'gopher'. Wealth and success suddenly flood Clint's life where only rags and poverty had been. Then Clint's universe shifts on its axis when he discovers an angel on Earth named Hope working in the nearby coffee shop. Smitten with her and overcome with emotions he had never before encountered, he asks her out and to his dismay she accepts. They immediately become a couple. Hope is a privileged daughter of a wealthy, privileged, socially elite New York family, but rebels against her pampered lifestyle and wants to experience life outside her sterile, secluded world. Just as Clint decides to get both of them out of this life of guns, danger and death by turning in his boss to the Feds, Hope is assasinated inside their Manhattan apartment. Clint now only has one reason to live - revenge. The ones who did this have Hell to Pay.