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

“Nathan?” Laura asked again, waiting for Nathan to answer. Did he want out of the deal? Could he walk away from the money? He, who had grown up poor, fought through poorer times, and had only started to find some sort of security? What about his promise to Laura, who was, despite it all, was a friend and a person who had helped him out during rougher patches? Nathan didn’t have the answers. He didn’t know what he owed to whom, least of all himself.


“I…” Nathan began, and he got off the freeway, going through the motions to take Laura home. If he ended the engagement to Laura, every piece of the illusion would crumble. If he got lucky and Greg treated him with kindness instead of vindictiveness, then maybe Nathan had a shot of finding another job in town. If Greg made it his business to make life difficult for Nathan, then Nathan would have to move. The economy wasn’t great, and leaving town would mean not seeing Fury again.


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