Hainted — Jordan L. Hawk

Dan Miller comes from a line of Walkers -- those who protect the living from the restless dead known as haints. After a haint kills their mother, Dan gives up Walking to retire to the family farm and raise his younger siblings. But when a necromancer's dark magic leads to murder, Dan must once again put his life on the line to protect the living from the dead.Walker Leif Helsvin's only goal is to hunt down a necromancer bent on raising an army of haints. With Dan's help, he might finally put an end to the necromancer's evil -- so long as Dan doesn't learn Leif's deepest secret. For Leif was once a necromancer himself.Leif knows he can't risk opening his heart to Dan, no matter how badly he wants to. But as the two Walkers race to stop the necromancer from unleashing an ancient evil, the passion between them threatens to ignite into a blaze neither of them can control.