Breaking Cover: A Christian Romantic Suspense

By CJ Brayton

She's spent two years hiding in plain sight. He's spent two years noticing.

Nora Hale opens her bakery at six thirty every morning, always sits facing the door, and never talks about Ohio, mostly because she's never been there. Her real name is Nora Bennett, and she's the forensic accountant whose testimony sent a Boston crime boss to federal prison. In the coastal town of Anchor Point, Maine, witness protection has given her a quiet life, a fifteen-year-old assistant who adores her, and one problem: the police chief who comes in every morning for a blueberry muffin and keeps asking questions she can't answer.

Widowed Chief Gabe Sutherland keeps lists, and the one about Nora has been growing for two years. Then her U.S. Marshals handler is found murdered on a back road outside town, her car is forced off a causeway into a storm-swollen creek, and Gabe learns the truth. Someone inside the government leaked her location, and the killer is already in Anchor Point.

With her bakery in ashes, her mother photographed on a Boston street corner, and a court hearing that could set a ruthless man free, Nora must decide whether to run again or trust a town, a man, and a God she's only just learned to pray to again. And Gabe, who couldn't save his wife, must discover that he can't keep the people he loves safe by holding on tighter.

Breaking Cover is Book One in the Anchor Point Protectors series: a clean Christian romantic suspense with a slow-burn romance, a close-knit small town, a lighthouse, a nor'easter, and a faith thread woven into the story. No profanity, no explicit content.

For readers who love witness protection stories, protective heroes, found family, and edge-of-your-seat suspense with real hope at its heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN37XV2G
• ISBN13: 9798162031789
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"