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

Mei laughed out loud. “Oh, Ian, you’re making this way harder than it needs to be.”


“Just get them home,” Ian commanded, unable to stand her pitying look for a second longer. Before she could protest, he spun, and headed for the street, wanting to put as much distance between himself and the faint but obvious disappointment he’d caught in Mei’s eyes. Adam’s heated words, the taste of his lips still lingering on Ian’s own, haunting him with every step as he hurried away, disappearing into the night


It had been two days since their encounter at the club. And in that time, Adam had avoided Ian at every turn, not that Ian went out of his way to seek him out. That night, Ian drove around until dawn, attempting to clear his head. By the time he returned, everyone was home and in bed. Ian retreated to his room and straight into the shower in a vain attempt to wash away the night’s events. Not that it worked; he’d laid awake for hours berating himself.


Chapter 46