Cracked

CRACKED
A psychological thriller by Dawn Sloan

Some things are broken beyond repair. Others are simply waiting to be uncovered.

Nina Hart has spent months rebuilding her life from the ashes of a past she would rather forget. In her quiet cottage, surrounded by clay, glaze and the familiar warmth of her pottery studio, she is beginning to believe that the worst is behind her.

Then a stranger places an order.

An innocent-looking request through her online pottery shop becomes something far more unsettling. Someone knows things they shouldn't. Someone has found a way into the life Nina has fought so hard to reclaim.

And someone is watching.

Carl Vose, Nina's neighbour, has built a career out of keeping people safe. He understands danger, knows how to recognise a threat, and has spent years burying the parts of himself that might make him one. But when a job brings him face to face with a past he thought was long dead, protecting Nina becomes more complicated than either of them could have imagined.

Because the truth has a way of finding its way to the surface.

And some secrets are worth killing for.

In a world of carefully crafted lies, misplaced trust and dangerous loyalties, Nina must decide how much of herself she is willing to risk to discover the truth.

After all, not everything that goes into the fire disappears.

CRACKED is a dark, atmospheric psychological thriller about obsession, betrayal and the secrets we bury to survive.