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

Adam searched for Ian. Over an hour ago, he had ordered Adam to follow the Rinaldi’s around while he ran off to do God knows what. Adam’s assignment was to watch Rinaldi’s bodyguards, to note how they reacted to people getting too close, how far back they stayed.


Adam lingered in the Greco-Roman room, cataloging his list for Ian when a voice called his name. He jumped at the sound, stunned to find his old college roommate and too brief lover, Edmund Ramsay.


“Oh my God,” Edmund gasped, open mouthed with shock. He pulled Adam into a tight hug before Adam could stop him. “Is it you?” Edmund shook his head in amazement. “I was told you died.”


“You can’t be here. Please, Edmund. You need to leave,” Adam pleaded, searching for Ian in the throngs of people gathered.


Edmund reached for him. “Why? What the hell is going on? Why does everyone think you’re dead?”


He had no time for those questions. Or any other. Adam beyond frantic as he pushed Edmund from him, forceful now.


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