Where The Strings Break

I loved him for seven years. He destroyed me in one.

Corinne Harding has spent her entire life mastering control. As a classically trained cellist holding a prestigious chair in the city symphony, her identity is built on discipline, passion, and the beautiful music she makes. But her greatest devotion isn't to her instrument-it's to Reid Calloway.

Reid is a brilliant architect who built their relationship from the ground up. Their love story began with the kind of intoxicating, all-consuming passion that rewires your brain and makes you believe in forever. He mapped her body, learned her deepest secrets, and became the foundation of her entire world.

Then, the foundation cracked.

When Corinne's father is diagnosed with aggressive, early-onset Alzheimer's, her family begins to collapse under the crushing weight of grief. Desperate for a lifeline, she turns to the man she loves. But instead of a safe harbor, she finds a stranger.

As Corinne spirals into the darkest season of her life, Reid's devotion evaporates. He begins a quiet, devastating campaign of emotional manipulation, gaslighting her into believing her grief is the poison killing their relationship. He rewrites their history. He makes her question her own mind. And worst of all, he hides a betrayal so profound it will shatter everything she thought she knew.

Where The Strings Break is a devastating psychological journey into the heart of a toxic relationship.

This is not just a contemporary romance about infidelity or heartbreak. It is an unvarnished, raw, and deeply emotional exploration of how a woman can be dismantled, piece by piece, by the person she trusts most-and the terrifying lengths she will go to when pushed past her breaking point.

Read this gut-wrenching, emotional drama if you love:

• Dark, complex psychological fiction with extreme emotional depth


• Stories of betrayal, gaslighting, and the agonizing reality of toxic love


• Deeply flawed characters pushed to the edge of sanity


• Tearjerker novels that will stay with you long after the final page

Publisher's Note: This book contains heavy themes including severe emotional abuse, gaslighting, profound grief, infidelity, and scenes of physical confrontation. It is an intense, dark emotional romance designed for mature readers who want a story that will completely wreck them.