New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hartās first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving itāand no one can ever know.
The world thinks they're dead. The world is wrong.
Deacon Tucker is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows heās alive, and heāll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for Godās sake, donāt ever fall in love. Thatās a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man canāt be brought back from.
Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop, Texas. She has no idea how Deacon Tucker ended up in her funeral home, but sheāll eat her hat if heās only a funeral home assistant. Deacon is dangerous, deadly, and gorgeous. And she knows her attraction to him can only end in heartache.
Deacon is on a mission to stop the most fatal terror attack the world has ever knownāwhatās known as The Day of Destinyāa terroristās dream. But when he discovers Tess has skills he can use to stop them, he has to decide if he can trust her with secrets worth dying for. And, most important, he has to decide if he can trust her with his heart.