Break Me Better - Book Two of The Broken Protocols

Cassidy Vale remembers things she was never meant to survive. The fire. The files. The scream no one else heard. What began as grief has unraveled into something much deeper—something built into her. The Phoenix protocol didn’t fail to erase Cassidy. It succeeded in creating a version of her that was easier to control. Now, as memories surface and lies collapse, Cassidy races to uncover who she was before they rewrote her—and whether the girl who survived is still inside the version they left behind. Break Me Better is a psychological sci-fi thriller about memory, identity, and betrayal—and the terrifying moment when you realize you’ve been overwritten from the inside out.

Break Me Better

Book Two of The Broken Protocols

By Sam Pattisapu

She was their memory. Now she’s their countdown.

Cassidy Vale remembers more than she should.

Lana’s death. The flash drives. The lie Julian won’t say out loud.

And the first time the system tried to erase her.

What Cassidy doesn’t know is that her survival wasn’t accidental—it was designed. Phoenix didn’t fail to rewrite her. It succeeded in creating something even more dangerous:

A version of her built to forget.

A version designed to obey.

Now, as old betrayals resurface and hidden files begin to decrypt themselves, Cassidy must unravel the protocol before it completes the overwrite. But each truth brings her closer to the one question she may not be able to answer:

What if the real Cassidy Vale never made it back?

Break Me Better is the haunting second book in The Broken Protocols, a mind-bending psychological sci-fi trilogy about memory, identity, and the versions of ourselves we were never supposed to meet.