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

“I’ll go slow, okay?” Ian reassured him as he settled his weight on top of him, taking his legs and wrapping them loose around his waist. “Are you comfortable?”


Adam nodded. Ian’s eyes never left Adam’s face, watching him for any hint of discomfort as he eased in an inch at a time. He stopped halfway when Adam hissed between his teeth at the slight twinge of pain.


“Do you want me to stop?” Ian asked, panting, arms trembling.


The initial discomfort was only a distant, annoying twinge. Instead, Adam concentrated on Ian’s expression. The way his eyes fluttered shut as he took his time slipping inside. Once there, he drew Adam close, settling on a slow, persistent rhythm, both soon sweaty and gasping for air as if all the oxygen had been drained from the room.


“Oh God, Adam,” Ian moaned, and Adam thought he might come from the pure need in his voice. “You’ve no idea how incredible you feel.”


Chapter 78