Break Me Open

They shot out his knees to send a message. She is going to make him walk again.

Physical therapist Tessa Vasko puts hockey players back on the ice. Gideon Marsh is worse than any of them: six-foot-four, a former heavyweight with a broken nose, two ruined knees and a temper he aims at anyone who pities him. The man who pays her to rehab him is the uncle who raised her and her sisters through every funeral.

Then a jar from her murdered father's stolen collection turns up in her mailbox, and the bullet inside it points at a gunman Gideon swears he never met. He is lying. What he knows about the men who pay him could save her family, or tear it apart.

He was the city's collector. Now he is the only one telling her the truth.

A grumpy-sunshine, wounded-hero dark mafia romance. Book 4 of Vasko & Daughters, a complete six-book series. Intended for adult readers: explicit content and mature themes.