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

“Your new boyfriend?” Mei quipped as he dumped Adam’s inert body onto the polished marble floors.


“Fuck off,” Ian snarled. Two guards stepped forward to pick up Adam, where he lay.


“Jesus. What? Calm down,” Mei urged, attempting to appear concerned, but her barely suppressed giggles gave her away.


Calm? Good luck with that, Ian thought. He’d had the two hour drive back to the estate to ruminate, and he was nowhere near calm. How in the hell had he stumbled across Rhys’s kid?


Ian had drawn his conclusions about Adam years ago. Hell, he’d even considered seeking him out before deciding against it. Not wanting to know, but the truth had refused to stay hidden. Fate had intervened instead, stepping in and snatching free will out of his hands.


Chapter 12