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

“Ian?” Adam sounding hesitant as he took a few cautious steps away from the wall toward him.


Ian could hear the fear and uncertainty thrumming under the surface of Adam’s skin. It only made him want him more. His every emotion overwhelmed Ian, how raw he was, so vivid and real, alive. Alive in ways that he had never been, and he hated himself. He hated Adam, too, for making him want something other than the icy numbness he preferred, especially when it ached like this like nothing had since Rhys had left him. Ian whirled on him, catching Adam off guard and forcing him to step back.


“Don’t make a big deal out of this.”


“Make a big deal?” Adam’s eyes were wide, mouth open in near comical confusion. “What the hell was that?”


Ian tried to rein back his temper, hands squeezed into tight fists, his knuckles aching. He unclenched them, forcing his arms to his side, straightened, hoping he sounded calm.


“A mistake. I shouldn’t have, and you shouldn’t have let me either.”


Chapter 45