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

They were at an impasse. Adam glanced around Ian’s room, wondering if Ian’s secrets rested in the thousands of pages before him. A clue to help make sense of the real Ian and not the mask he showed the rest of the world. So much of Ian confounded him, intrigued and repulsed him in equal measure.


Ian moved closer, careful as he ran a finger over the bandages. His touch was so gentle the caress made every hair on Adam’s body stand up in response. His legs heavy, rooted to the floor, were shockingly aware of his heartbeat’s quickening from Ian’s mere proximity.


“Huh?” Adam startled when Ian broke the silence.


“The books. I sort of wound up with them after Rhys died.” Ian paused as if only now aware he was touching him far more intimately than he meant to. He coughed, putting a few feet of much needed distance between them.


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