An erotic, transgressive love story about a brilliant professor who enters a charged romance with her psychiatrist after they find themselves at the same wedding, exploring sexual power dynamics and the dangerous desire to be known.

Kate Callahan is a brilliant feminist film theory professor whose life is dictated by her compulsive behaviors and grief in the wake of her mother’s death. For three years she’s been a patient of the devastatingly magnetic psychiatrist, Dr. Sterling. The more he listens, the more power he seems to hold—and the more her infatuation with him grows. At her sister’s wedding tasting, Kate learns in disastrous fashion that Sterling is the cousin of the groom. With family obligations set to keep them in each other’s orbit, the two are forced to part ways professionally. Boundaries blur as they start to know each other not as doctor and patient but as man and woman. Sterling pursues Kate with romantic vigor, his only prerequisite that she name her sexual aches with specificity, out loud. So that he can hear.

When a man from her past appears, Kate faces a choice. Does she surrender to the intoxicating, dangerous intimacy of Sterling, or return to the uncomplicated safety of the good man she has never been able to forget?

Bold, intoxicating, and fan-yourself sexy, Break Through is an addictively hot novel about a woman searching for a breakthrough and the psychiatrist who gives her much more than she came for.