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

“Promising intel came in on Grady. Since this may be an opportunity we won’t get again, we need to work fast.” He gestured to Mei, who had Vince and Regan seated to her left and right. “You three are with me.”


Next, he turned to Adam. “Adam, you’ll stay here with Kalifa and Hector. What they say goes until I return. Is that understood?”


Adam opened his mouth to protest, but Ian cut him off before getting a word out.


“I’m not debating you. I’m telling you. Everyone else, two hours.”


The room erupted in a flurry. When Ian gave orders, everyone else jumped. Everyone but Adam still seething over the casual way Ian dismissed him.


“Can I speak to you for a moment?” Adam asked, breaking through the commotion.


Ian checked that they were alone first before nodding, looking reluctant at the prospect. “You have thirty seconds. What is it?”


Ian exhaled a shaky breath before responding. “You’re staying right here.”


Chapter 34