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

“What is it?” He realized he had no choice but to follow.


Ian yanked open the passenger side door and tossed Adam into his seat. Adam sulked, glaring while Ian pulled out his cell. After a few seconds of scrolling, he handed over a PDF file entitled Delgado


“Read this.” Ian shoved the device into Adam’s waiting palm.


Grumbling, Ian retreated, kicking up a dust and gravel cloud as he stomped off into the night.


Delgado. Recognition dawned. Chloe Delgado, the woman who had kept him company at that party, Ian had dragged him to several months ago. He started reading and wished he hadn’t. In front of him page after page of crimes, too horrific to contemplate.


Chloe Delgado was far from an innocent bystander in her husband Marcus’s atrocities. No, she’d enthusiastically taken part in a long catalog of horrors from gun running to human trafficking.


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