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

“Why the fuck do you care?” Adam snarled and lost his footing, trying to find a place to sit.


“Christ! Sit down before you fall.” Ian seized Adam by the shoulders and shoved him into a sitting position on the bed.


“Ask me why I’ve been drinking.” Adam reached up and grabbed Ian’s hands as he pulled away.


“I’d rather not,” Ian grumbled as he untangled Adam’s hold and stepped back.


“Come on, ask me why I need to be drunk to sleep at night,” Adam insisted as he flopped back onto the bed, staring up at the ceiling.


Ian groaned and came over to the side of the bed, coming into view above. He considered a moment before he sat down. Adam reached over and pulled Ian down until he gave up protesting and joined him on the bed.


“This isn’t a good idea,” Ian muttered before dropping beside Adam.


In response, Adam moved in closer, making himself comfortable.


Chapter 74