Sinful Sunday: The Dead Don’t Lie

Lily

5 years ago

The Dead Don’t Lie
Dead Generations #1
by Anne Russo

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.

Trigger Warning: This story contains a brief scene of sexual assault.

3 out of 5 flames

4 out of 5 fairies

First, I can’t wait for book 2! Second, this definitely got my heart racing. Does it count as cardio if a book is getting your heart rate up instead of exercise? Anyway – although this isn’t the steamiest book I’ve read, it has a great story line, and a lot of teasing. The characters have a lot of depth, and there are ones you love and ones you love to hate (looking at you Katherine). I became so immersed in Adam and Ian’s story that I was a bit disappointed at the end, and I’m looking forward to the next installment.

Til next time,
Lily

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne makes her home in Connecticut with her wonderful and ever-so-patient partner—A lifelong reader, writer, and curious student. Anne hopes to create exciting multi-dimensional characters and worlds but with a queer sensibility. The Dead Don’t Lie is the first book in the Dead Generations series and her first novel.

When not dreaming of and writing suspenseful gay romances, you’ll find Anne reading an ungodly amount of biographies (the bigger, the better!) and when she can enjoying time out in nature. Anne also enjoys bubble baths, podcasts, coffee, all kinds of music and is looking forward to once more spending her weekends hanging out at museums, book stores, and flea markets.