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 understand this has been hard on you.”


Adam struggled not to laugh out loud at the sentiment.


She carried on, “Your efforts haven’t gone unnoticed or unappreciated.”


“Thank you,” he answered between his teeth.


“Of course I’m angry,” Adam hissed, unable to hold back. “You’re acting as if I want to be here.”


Katherine frowned. “You need time.”


Adam scoffed at the notion. “Time? Time to forget the career I worked for my entire life? The family I lost?”


“Must we carry on with the dramatics?” she returned, sipping her tea without a care in the world.


Mother or no mother, Adam was never going to understand this woman. In fairness, he didn’t wish to, spying the ever present darkness lurking beneath the surface.


“Now, if you’re done,” Katherine proceeded, “I hope one day you’ll learn to accept your place here, even allow yourself to thrive.”


“I’ll do my best,” Adam answered, failing to hide his distaste.


Chapter 51