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

Katherine softened, leaning forward and retaking his hand. This time he didn’t fight her, devastated. “We handle problems that others cannot. For a price.”


Adam’s mind flipped back to the hospital. Mallory’s room and the discovery of a spreading pool of blood and two dead bodies. The other man’s finger on the trigger, ready to shoot him on the spot. Realization clicked. Beyond frantic now, he tried to sit up, desperate to put as much distance between them as possible.


“I don’t belong here,” Adam protested again, but his pleas fell on deaf ears once more.


Katherine stood up, studying him with a disapproving stare, peering into his eyes as if to lay his every secret bare. Underneath though, Adam spied a faint layer of revulsion, a contempt for him that made his skin crawl. She made his skin crawl. This woman who claimed she was his mother.


“Please let me go. I don’t want to be here—”


Chapter 15