Emily Rosen, Jake Spinner, Oliver Sweet, and Snake have returned, this time on assignment in Tanzania, East Africa. The Gaia Team is tasked with hunting down and capturing the Kinyonga, a notorious international arms dealer who also traffics blood ivory through his criminal network.
A deadly virus has spread across Africa, killing thousands of people and leaving the parks dangerously understaffed. As a result, elephant poachers in Tarangire National Park are decimating the herds. Emily Rosen proposes a plan to bolster the absent rangers' ranks by recruiting young women from two opposing villages to train as an all-female anti-poaching fighting unit, even though the Tanzanian government is skeptical of their ability to protect the elephants.
Defying expectations, the young women become a skilled fighting force and succeed in stopping the poachers. The frustrated Kinyonga is forced to up his game. He places bounties on the rangers' heads while enlisting the help of a Somali warlord who commands an al-Shabaab terrorist cell. Colonel Jawari desperately needs the blood ivory to fund his next terrorist attack on a major Tanzanian city.
In a desperate act of retribution, Kinyonga and Jawari invade the rangers' villages, burning homes, killing several townspeople, and kidnapping young girls to provide brides for Jawari's foot soldiers.
Led by the Gaia Team, the Honey Badger Squad, as the young rangers are known, launches an assault into Somali territory to rescue the village girls. Outnumbered five to one, Rosen, Spinner and the Gaia Team must utilize their wits and the rangers' newfound skills to bring down the murderous Kinyonga and the psychopathic Colonel Jawari. It's their only shot at saving the girls from a fate worse than death.