Lies are honored truths when they justify power, ownership, and legacy.Once you step into the dark, manipulative, smoldering world of Lies, not even death can set you free, but love might.Sweating LiesSplitting LiesOpening LiesTrusting lies (Novella not available separately)Sweating Lies"Gladiator or toy?" Kaspar asks, as if it's the easiest choice in the world.It might be an easy answer for someone branded, brainwashed, and who remembers no other life. But that's not me, not yet anyway. I'm a cop - or at least I was until my cover got blown.Now, I'm a captive on a ship; one of the trafficked people I vowed to save. Kaspar's a toy - a pleasure slave - content to warm our sadistic owner's bed; he laps up the abuse he's conditioned to associate with affection.He's my only way out. To gain our freedom, I must play the hardest undercover role of my career and be everything his fractured mind a more controlling bastard than the man who turns people into grateful slaves for a living.Officer Jiao Sweatt thinks I'm a victim.He has a lot to learn.And it'll hurt.Splitting LiesI'm drowning in myself, ripping apart.Torn from my life, I'm in a world I don't understand. There are no masters, no kneeling, and no loving punishments to keep me grounded.Despite the smiles and care Jiao provides, I'm not his priority. I believe his concern is genuine, but his interest is professional. Casting my world into history is his aim, and for that I can't trust him. The voices are getting louder; I'm losing time. I need to hold on; need to stay loyal. Master will come for me soon, and blood will wash my sins clean. I refuse to imagine what they will do to the man who stole me.Kaspar's mental health is shot to pieces; he's flipping between personalities. I wish I could give him what the psychiatrist says he needs... time. But lives depend on the information locked inside that gorgeous head. How can I crack his loyalty to the centuries-old slaver organization that has already tried to kill both of us, without breaking him completely?My boss says it's a price she's willing to pay. I'm not so sure.Opening LiesSometimes you have to sacrifice a pawn to win the game, but what if you're that pawn?Vladimir is a pawn in the game of life, a leader at a kids' summer camp, but he has big ambitions that don't involve remaining a tiny cog in 1980s USSR. Rich, unable to speak Russian, and devilishly handsome, Victor Tabor is Vladimir's perfect target for some extra cash, maybe some education, and a route out of his restrictive homeland.The Tabor heir sees someone to mold into a perfect member of his family's centuries-old mercenary organization. Attraction leads to dangerous emotions because Victor is expected to marry, not spend his time spoiling a boy who should be locked up with the other unwilling recruits.Victor's father rules with an iron fist and thinks Vladimir would best serve broken on his knees rather than standing beside his heir.In a world of manipulation and violence, who will pay the ultimate price for misjudging their opponent in a game where victory means survival and the losers pay with their body?Trusting Lies (Bonus novella)Victor had always promised to show Vladimir the world, and a trip to New York was everything they could want until a woman from the past turned up with a child she claimed was