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

“You don’t want this. Trust me, Adam. You don’t want me,” Ian pleaded, spitting out each syllable.


Adam studied his conflicted expression, searching for answers. He sighed, dropping his head as Ian sucked in a harsh breath. Adam’s hands under his shirt rested against Ian’s chest, defeated in his desire for him. “I know, but God, Ian. I don’t want to do this without you; I can’t—”


The words poured out like a raging river contained and now unleashed. They both ached at those words. True for both. Ian encircled his wrists, firm but gentle, needing to see the raw and powerful truth. A truth Adam never saw a need to keep hidden from him. Ian groaned out loud when Adam sank against him, meeting his gaze.


“Please don’t go,” Adam begged, biting on his bottom lip.


That one gesture tore apart every resistance Ian may or may not have had. If he didn’t get his mouth on Adam’s in the next three seconds, he’d explode. Ian kissed him, hard, heat and passion overtaking any real finesse.


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