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

“Can you hear me? You’re safe. You’re safe now.”


Adam bent his head, choking back a sob, the sound part laughter, part moan. Adam sagged into his arms as Ian hoisted him to his feet. Adam more or less dead weight, but Ian held him tighter, moving them until he had Adam against the nearest wall.


Ian wiped away the blood and pushed back matted hair from his Adam’s brow. But even that slight touch made him wince in pain. Ian’s careful fingers skimmed over bruises and cuts. Adam leaned into his caress, wrapping one shaking hand around Ian’s neck. They pressed their foreheads together. Ian closed his eyes and leaned into the touch, letting out a loose, shaky breath, afraid to let go of him.


Adam chuckled through a mouthful of bloody teeth. His split lip broke into something resembling a smirk. “You should see the other guy.”


Chapter 68