While young doctor Adam Morrow resigns himself to an uninformed existence, world-weary assassin Ian Abbott struggles with a life he never asked for. When the two strangers meet by chance, the attraction is immediate. And deadly, as Adam walks in on Ian in the middle of a hit. The situation spirals out of control once Ian discovers he and Adam share a connection far more profound than either imagined. Shocked by the discovery, Ian makes the hasty decision to kidnap him. Overnight Adam is torn from his promising career and a family who believes him dead. Things go from bad to worse when he finds himself reunited with a mother he never knew who is now head of a covert and shadowy group of killers for hire. Forced into joining their ranks, with Ian as his reluctant trainer and handler, Adam is given a series of impossible tasks to complete. To survive, he must fight with everything he has to keep his life, his sanity, and his very soul from being swept up in a violent and chaotic world even as he battles his unwanted and complicated feelings for Ian. For his part Ian, a man with dark secrets of his own, has a past he isn't ready to share with Adam even as the other man worms into his life in more ways than one. The two grow closer and lines blur -- between good and evil, friend or foe, enemy or lover. But something, or someone, plots against them, determined to do everything in their power to keep them apart. Even if it means destroying them both.

The Dead Don't Lie

“I don’t care. It’s why you can’t possibly understand,” Allison wiped away her tears. “You’re not close to anyone, not even me.”


The remark stung. Adam struggled to brush aside the comment, finishing his coffee in a single gulp. All he wanted now was to put as much space between himself and her as he could. A habit that had led to this same argument time and time again but one he was unwilling to break.


“That’s not true,” he asserted, hoping to pacify her by leaning in for a kiss goodbye. But she turned away, leaving him to brush her cheek instead.


“Allie, come on,” he tried. “Look, I’ve got to go but I promise I’ll try to get time off. We’ll go see your parents once your father is home from surgery. We’ll make an entire day of it.”


“Forgive me but your promises have been for shit.”


“I’m doing my best,” Adam exclaimed, flinging his hands in the air. “I am. We’ll talk later, okay?”


Chapter 4