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

Jimmy gave him a dirty grin before sliding to his knees, right there in this filthy, trash strewn alley. He tore off Adam’s belt, reaching with grasping, eager hands. Adam threw his head back against the brick wall behind him. The anticipation alone was unbearable as he waited for welcome and much wanted heat. Yet before even the mere ghost of breath where Adam wanted it most, Jimmy cried out in surprise.


Adam’s eyes snapped open to discover Ian standing before him. His eyes locked on his own rigid and focused, burning through him in the meager light. Jimmy sprawled out on the hard, unforgiving ground, protesting. Ian tore his focus from Adam’s wide eyed stare to direct his attention to the man at his feet.


Chapter 44