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

Furious, Adam leapt from the bed to get into Ian’s space. Once more, he wished for the power to see beyond the impenetrable wall between them.


“We were drunk, and we got what we wanted, right?” Adam demanded, high and shrill. Immediately cringing at the sound, the hysteria told him he fooled no one, least of all himself.


“Why can’t I hate you? I wish to God I could just fucking hate you!”


Ian reached for his arm, but Adam snatched it away. “Why the hell are you here? What the fuck do you want me from me?”


“What happened between us should’ve never happened in the first place, but that’s my—”


Ian tried to answer but couldn’t, shaking his head, as if at a loss for words. But Adam refused to be deterred by his silence. “Why, Ian? Tell me why we can’t be together. Just tell me what or rather who is standing between us.”


Chapter 86