Breaker takes place on an alternate Earth, where the Surge has given rise to a new race of humans. Talents are hunted for their psychic abilities and enhanced physicals. At the facility known as the Source, the Corporation’s captive population is kept ignorant of the wasteland Outside and what lies beyond. Intimacy has been replaced by eugenics, and after centuries of breeding Talents for profit, the Source’s program is in desperate need of a harvest. Eyes have turned to Glynfyls, the free Talent capitol in the north, and there are whispers of war…
Flynn Scot doesn’t give a shit. Cursed with a violent temper and haunted by the blood-stained alcoholism of his past, he’s exiled himself to a life of strict penance Outside, eschewing the use of his ability. Struggling to keep a binding oath to reform, when an old debt is called in, he begrudgingly rescues Kara Jester, an escaped Talent from the Source, from a deadly blizzard. Snowed in, her seduction of him results in an inadvertent psychic bond that entangles his emotions with hers, entwining their fates, and alerting the Source to their location.
Elite troops hot on their heels and the border set to close, it’s a race north to Glynfyls, and to everything Flynn wants to keep buried. His mental state fraught, he’s forced to choose between protecting the woman he’s afraid to love and letting out the animal he swore he’d never be again. Either may destroy him, if Kara’s secrets don’t get them killed first.
Breaker is an epic SFF romance evocative of JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood and NK Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. It explores the blurred edge between permissive savagery and the passion of true love when those engineered for extreme acts of violence are forced into an emotional intimacy defying societal norms.