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

God, Adam had been right. Ian had behaved like a coward, a gutless, worthless coward. And this was his penance, impotent to do little except wait for his return. Ian awakened several hours later, furious that Adam still hadn’t returned to their room.


He finally gave in and called, but no response. Ian refused to leave a message, unable to find the right words. Instead, fed up, he’d gotten in his car and drove. Ian had stumbled upon this desolate spot near the water by chance, after taking a turn off the interstate. Eventually he coasted his car to a stop next to a large gravel pit tucked beside a massive construction site. After several minutes of idling, Ian kicked open the door and started dialing Adam. He’d had enough with the silent treatment, ready to lay into Adam with enough threats to put the fear of God into him. Yet, as his calls went ignored, the more frantic he became. He felt livid when Adam didn’t answer or return his calls


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