To Nathan Hunt, honesty is anything but the best policy. Telling the truth has earned him nothing but heartache and pain, so lying about who he is and what he wants seems to be the only path to job security and friends. Hell, it even brings him a hollow kind of happiness.<br><br>Except that's not much of a life for anyone. Desperate to cure his self-made misery, Nathan agrees to go along with a con that will score enough cash for Nathan to start over. There's just one problem: lying is getting harder by the day. And a con who can't lie, is a con who gets caught.<br><br>Nathan's attempts to distract himself from his moral quandary lead him to a mysterious, intoxicating man named Fury, a mixed martial arts fighter who knows a thing or two about lies and pasts better left dead and buried. Together, they undertake a journey that proves honesty is more dangerous and more difficult than either of them could have imagined. And as they combat addiction, thugs, guns, and inner demons, Nathan and Fury can only hope that their battle to be together is worth the bitter fight.

Fight

When the announcer began the introductions for the fourth match, Nathan thought the roar was going to take the roof off the building. Fury might not be the main attraction, but he had serious crowd support. There wasn’t a single person sitting when Fury entered, and Nathan turned just as Fury came down the aisle, stalking toward the cage. Fury wore red shorts and shoes, and Nathan was close enough that he felt the air stir as Fury went by.


Fury climbed onto the stage and stepped inside of the cage. His opponent, another heavyweight who went by the name Stomper, bounded down a different aisle. Stomper was paler, shorter, and meatier than Fury, with a close-shaven skull and cauliflower ears. A few people yelled for Stomper, but cries and chants for Fury had already begun and were gaining volume, and the fighting hadn’t even started.


“Have you seen him before?” Sarah yelled, pointing in Fury’s direction.


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