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

“Tempting, but I’m sure I’m still drunk.”


“What’s one more?” Ian mused as he took Adam’s hand, rubbing his knuckles.


That touch alone made Adam’s knees weak, and he hated himself for it. Why couldn’t he breathe when they were this close? Adam opened his mouth to argue only for the opening elevator doors to interrupt him.


“Just one. In honor of the tux, if nothing else.” Ian stepped off and extended his hand.


Adam took a tentative step forward and accepted the gesture, following him through the hallway to the dim lit living room. Not a single soul in sight. Ian released his hand as he headed over to the bar. Adam drew in the scene from the entryway as Ian hit a light switch. The electric fireplace roared to life, casting a seductive glow over the apartment.


“Yes,” Adam replied, though hesitantly.


Chapter 25