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

“Honestly, you’re both just too damn stubborn to see you have more in common than not. Anyway, just think about it, will you?”


Point made. Mei offered another encouraging pat before departing, leaving Adam behind to mull over her words, unsettled.  7


Later that evening, Adam knocked on Ian’s door. Ian answered, sighing, looking displeased by the interruption.


Adam opened his mouth but lost his words, distracted by discovering Ian shirtless in front of him. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t seen enough of Ian’s body to know that the man kept himself in impeccable shape. Yet the scars Ian carried were revealed to him close up. A gruesome collection of the many near misses Ian experienced. It humbled Adam, seeing the visual proof of the life Ian had led.


“Is there something you want?” Ian repeated, leaning against the door frame, his irritation obvious.


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