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 didn’t need an invitation. He had Adam in his arms and pressed against the mattress in ten seconds flat. Ian thrust up against him, desperate for relief. He wanted inside him but couldn’t wait, not sure he’d last long enough to prep him. So pent up, he didn’t even care anymore how it happened.


“Touch me,” he pleaded against Adam’s parted lips.


Adam surprised him by rolling them over until Ian lay underneath him instead, taking Ian aback. He wasn’t used to letting his lovers gain the literal and figurative upper hand on him.


Adam leaned him back, pressing frenzied kisses to his neck, biting on his earlobe. Ian cried out at the burst of pleasure/pain at the sensation. A cry he fought to stifle further when Adam curled his hand around his erection and started stroking.


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