Three days before she vanished, Tess bought a one-way ticket home.The last word on the voicemail was a name.Julian.Cora came to Port Silver with a duffel bag and a sister-shaped hole in her chest.She studied the police report until the pixels burned into her eyes.She memorized the suspect's face before she ever set foot on the dock.Julian Ashford. Last person seen with Tess. The man the whole town had already given up on cracking.He told Cora he didn't know her sister.But his hands shook when she said Tess's name.That tremor was the only crack in the wall — so Cora drove herself straight into it.The deeper she digs, the less the town adds up. A collapsed dock. An earring at the lighthouse door. A hat that washes up with the tide. A chief who knows her name before she gives it and rests his hand on his weapon like a habit he can't break.Everyone is lying.Including the voice in her own head.Because Cora's memory has holes too, and the closer she gets to the truth about that night, the less sure she is of what she actually saw — and whether the man she's starting to trust is her only ally or the reason her sister is gone.Then Julian caught her wrist in the dark and said, "You keep pulling this thread, and it won't just be Tess they're burying."That was the moment the hunt became a trap.Not because someone wanted her to stop.But because someone wanted her here — close enough to silence.The Lantern Tide festival is days away. The cellar door doesn't lock. And the truth buried in the sand of Port Silver could free Tess — or get Cora killed before she ever brings her home.His to Break is a tense, twisting race-against-time thriller about a vanished sister, a deadly conspiracy, an unreliable narrator, a small town full of secrets, and the truth that could get her killed.Perfect for readers who love romantic suspense, missing-person thrillers, unreliable-narrator mysteries, slow-burn danger, small-town secrets, and a pulse-pounding twist. A gripping standalone suspense.