The Brink

He didn't survive his childhood. He paid for it. Every day, for the rest of his life. Leo Hadley knew the deal: if he took the abuse, his brother Toby didn't have to. He took every beating, every sick game, and every bit of his mother’s hate so that Toby could stay innocent. He killed off every soft part of himself just to keep his brother safe. When he finally clawed himself a life, he kept his mouth shut, and spent his life hiding in the dark, so no one could ever get close enough to see the scars. He knew they were there. They hurt. And now, the past is coming for him. His mother is breaking, and his brother has found a box of letters that change everything they thought they knew about their father, who left them to rot. Now, the fortress walls Leo built around his brother are starting to crack. The truth is coming and it's going to destroy them both. A haunting, visceral, and gripping domestic noir about the high cost of protection, the endurance of the human spirit, and the devastation of some truths that should have stayed hidden.