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 expect you to understand…” He began, as if struggling to find the right words.


A sharp knock on the door interrupted them. Katherine entered. In an instant, Ian’s hand slid out of his own, and he was jumping hurriedly to his feet. But not quick enough to escape Katherine’s shrewd eye. Ian coughed, groping for his jacket while making excuses to leave.


“Am I interrupting something important?”


Adam didn’t miss the pure ice in her voice, the focus of her attention on Ian.


“No,” Ian answered, his eyes flickering over to Adam before heading for the exit. “I was just leaving.”


Katherine stopped him with a hand on his arm. Ian stiffened, head angled, gaze lowered as she leaned into his ear. “Please see me in the morning. Nine A.M.”


Ian nodded and left, quick enough to miss the slow, gentle smile she flashed. But her smile failed to match the absolute viciousness in her eyes.


Chapter 29