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

“Ian?” Katherine’s tone sharper as he tried to defend himself, sputtering over his words


“You were not to let him out of your sight. Not for a single moment.”


Ian caught Mei’s concerned expression from his peripheral and moved out of earshot. “Tell me how this happened? How in the hell did you let Michael Grady get a hold of my son?”


“I didn’t mean for—we—we argued, and he went off to calm down—”


Katherine stopped him, her words pure venom. “Enough. Frankly, I don’t even want to hear your voice. Get him back, Ian. I don’t care how you do it but do not come back here without my son. Do you understand me?”


The phone clicked off as Ian stood there, waves of nausea rising. Dark and tormented voices rose until he wanted to scream in frustration. Instead, he pushed everything else aside, concentrating only on the task at hand. And that was getting Adam back. No matter what it took, no matter the cost.  14


Chapter 65