Break Me

She uncovered the truth in a dead man's teeth. He was sent to make sure she never told anyone.

Dr. Linnea Strand has built her career identifying the dead.

As a forensic dentist, she trusts evidence over assumptions, and the evidence surrounding a twenty-year-old burial in Charleston tells her something impossible.

The man buried as Rafael Velanova isn't Rafael Velanova.

He's her uncle.

Linnea wants answers. The Velanova family wants the grave left undisturbed.

And Tomas Ferreira has been sent to make sure the situation doesn't become a bigger problem.

Tomas has spent years handling the family's most dangerous assignments. He's a man who follows orders, keeps his promises, and rarely explains himself.

Taking Linnea somewhere isolated should be another job.

Except Linnea refuses to be intimidated.

On a remote island surrounded by fog and water, she begins to see the contradictions in the man holding her there. Tomas discovers that the woman he's supposed to silence has a sharper understanding of loyalty than anyone he's ever served.

Their attraction is complicated, unwanted, and increasingly impossible to ignore.

But Linnea has evidence that could destroy the people Tomas has spent his life protecting.

And Tomas knows something about the past that could change everything she believes.

He was ordered to keep her quiet. She's about to make him question every order he's ever followed.

Break Me is Book 3 of The Velanova Files, an interconnected dark romantic suspense series featuring forced proximity, dangerous secrets, and a morally gray protector.