Broken Blade

Kit Colbana has survived worse than most people can imagine — but surviving and living are very different things. In Broken Blade, she's retreated to Wolf Haven, hollowed out by trauma she's not ready to name, let alone face. When the outside world refuses to leave her alone and drags her into an investigation involving a stolen ancient relic, Kit must decide whether the woman she used to be still exists somewhere underneath the damage. This is a story about recovering a self you thought was gone, told with the kind of raw emotional honesty that makes the action sequences hit harder because you already care what she loses if she fails.

J.C. Daniels writes Kit's fractured interiority with a sharp, first-person voice that keeps readers off-balance in exactly the right way — you feel the gaps in her confidence even when she's performing bravado. The pacing moves fast but never glosses over the psychological weight of what Kit is carrying. Compared to the earlier Colbana Files entries, this installment goes deeper and darker, rewarding readers who've been paying attention to the quieter threads running beneath the series all along.