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

“Yeah, I bet,” Ian mumbled under his breath.


The question stunned him. Kalifa nor Hector ever questioned him, unlike the other three. “He’s a goddamn nightmare is what he is.”


Kalifa raised black brows in alarm or interest, he couldn’t tell.


“You look worried,” Kalifa announced, answering in her quiet way.


“I’m not worried,” he spat, stomping past her toward the elevators, determined to get to the bottom of things once and for all.


Ian stood, observing Katherine from the doorway. A silent and uneasy voyeur watching as she sat by Adam’s bedside, her pale white face detached. Cautious, he stepped into the room, clearing his throat, getting her attention. Katherine’s gaze lifted to meet his, hostile and defiant as she glared at him from the other side of the room.


“I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to do with him.”


“Do with him? I’m still wondering how you knew anything about him.”


Chapter 13