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

“Is that everything? Can I go?” Ian didn’t answer, so Adam elbowed him out the way, temper rising.


Without a word, Ian moved aside so Adam could pass. But Adam could feel the heat of his gaze, boring into his back with each step he took.


After another unpleasant reminder of Ian’s existence, Adam had planned to spend the evening alone, ruminating in self-pity. But his roommates had other ideas. Mei and Regan had come knocking, beckoning him out hiding with the allure of expensive tequila. It’d taken lots of coaxing, and a few death threats before finally he agreed to what they promised was to be a wild poker game. One he’d never forgive himself for if he missed.


“Oh, you’ve decided to join us,” Vince exclaimed. He was in the middle of setting up shots of the promised tequila when they entered the common area.


“Yes, well, I’m sure you know how persuasive these two can be,” Adam answered, accepting Vince’s drink.


“You don’t know the half,” Vince chuckled.


Chapter 52