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 will ask that you please refrain from both the vulgarity and the hysterics.” Katherine’s voice held a slight tremor.


But Adam was quick to catch a glimpse of her seething, unconcealed hostility, there for a millisecond and gone. As if he had imagined it, her expression shifted now as unbothered as a marble statue.


“Ian knows the rules, far better than you, it seems,” she said, too calm. “He’s made his choice, and from what I’ve gathered, he made it recklessly. Something you’ve had more to do with than you realize.”


Adam shook with rage. “What the hell does that mean?”


“You. You’re a distraction. Ian would never have been in this position if it weren’t for you, clouding his judgment.”


“You’re mistaken,” Adam argued, aware of the slight tremor in his own voice, her words hitting too close to home.


“And you’re far too sentimental for someone in your predicament,” Katherine countered.


Chapter 37