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

“Please don’t—” Adam tried again, desperate.


Ian turned on him, glaring. “You’ve said enough. Now be quiet.”


Adam hung back, eyes glued to the weapon in Ian’s hand, his uneven breaths steadying the longer it remained at his side. Ian took the gun in hand and tucked it into the holster on his shoulder.


“Sasha, right?” Sasha struggled to meet Ian’s eyes, her entire body shaking, teeth chattering. “Look at me,” he demanded. “You’re home early, aren’t you?”


Sasha nodded as she forced herself to meet his eye. Shiny wet tears fell as she nodded, moving as if awakening from a dream.


“That’s unfortunate. You see, I had no intention of including you in any of this.” Ian threw a glance over his shoulder at Adam. “But to appease certain parties, I’m willing to forget you were here. That means you never saw or heard a thing. If you stick to that story, you’ll be fine, but if you don’t, trust me, I’ll find you and kill you. Do you understand me?”


Chapter 57