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

Laura shoved the door open, scrambling outside. “Laura!” Nathan called. “C’mon! What did I—”


“You got away from your past by giving up on being yourself,” Laura said, all stone and steel and like she’d been dying to shove the words down his throat for ages. “And if you’re never yourself, you can never be with anyone. I can’t do that.” Laura’s eyes filled with tears. “Even if I wanted to.”


Laura slammed the car door and strode away, leaving Nathan in dust clouds of complete confusion. He watched her heels striking the sidewalk until she vanished from view, and he sat alone in the car with the engine running.


Nathan had no idea what the hell that’d been all about. Laura didn’t harbor secret love for him. They’d worked those details out a long time ago. He was gay; he wasn’t her type. Laura was the exact opposite of the kind of person who kept torches blazing for people she could never have. Laura was direct. She’d put a bullet in somebody first and ask questions later.


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