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Breakwater
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As Hurricane Ophelia bears down on Tampa Bay, a catatonic patient slips the mag-locks at Cypress Shoals State Hospital and turns a flooded city into a ritual-marking thresholds with pennies, psalms, and precision. Detective Marisol Cruz, a ranger-turned-EMT named Ethan Pike, and psychiatrist Dr. Asha Sinha race across bridges, marinas, and culverts while Hunter Vale composes his crimes in triplets-bells, bottles, and monofilament ticking time on steel. Each scene is scrubbed clean but for a deliberate miss, each door a test: will they step when he says step? The chase surges from storm to courtroom-voir dire to penalty phase-braiding fieldwork with deposition transcripts and cross-examinations that circle Sun City, Westshore, and Riverview, where a retired ballplayer and a slick garage lawyer become grim waypoints. Scored in movements-Breakwater, Fugue, Cadenza-this is a propulsive, hurricane-soaked thriller about crossings, consequence, and the cost of refusing someone else's rhythm.
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