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

Lost in his thoughts, the copious amounts of whiskey he had drunk, Ian never heard Mei coming into the bar. She let him have it. One perfect right hook, and she knocked him from his spot with a single shot.


“The fuck?” Ian swore, picking himself up, glaring as he rubbed the ache from his jaw. “What was that for?”


“Don’t you dare give me that!” she hissed. “You know exactly what you did.” Realization dawned, chastised, Ian reached behind him for his vacated seat.


“Is there a problem?” The concerned bartender questioned.


“No,” Ian returned, pushing a seat over for Mei. “No problem, but I’ll need another and grab one for my friend here while you’re at it.”


The bartender glanced between the two. He shook his head, moving away to fetch their order.


“You’re an asshole,” Mei announced as she plopped into the seat next to Ian.


“Let me guess. You’ve been talking to Adam.” Ian muttered, draining the rest of his glass.


“He never uttered a word. I saw the aftermath for myself.”


Chapter 84