Fit to Break: When control fractures, love becomes the most dangerous weapon

By Hugh Fonzo

He negotiates with killers for a living. She dissects trauma like a weapon. But when their past collides with a new threat, survival means breaking every rule-including the ones they swore to themselves.

FBI crisis negotiator Beckett Hale walks into chaos like it's a second home. Controlled. Calculated. Unshakable. But behind his calm voice and precise aim is a man cracking under pressure-and the weight of a tragedy no one sees coming.

Lila Hart is a trauma consultant with a gift for reading minds in meltdown. She's seen men like Beckett before-brilliant, haunted, already halfway gone. But she wasn't expecting the pull. Or the past they share. Or the target on both their backs.

When a hostage standoff goes sideways and an erased case resurfaces, Beckett and Lila are forced into a volatile partnership where trust is fragile, the Bureau is hiding something, and silence could get them both killed.

Dark secrets. Slow-burn obsession. Tactical tension that ignites into something reckless.

For fans of Tessa Bailey, Jack Reacher, Criminal Minds, and romantic thrillers that go for the throat-this is not a love story. It's a warning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F89QW8KR
• ISBN13: 9798283016573
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"