Overview

Some archives weren’t meant to be found.

When Quinn Mercer inherits a dusty antique shop in Manhattan, they expect a slow life filled with clocks and tea—not coded paintings, wax recordings, and whispered warnings from long-dead opera singers.

But The Breakfront isn’t a shop. It’s an archive of vanished voices—and someone wants those voices silenced for good.

With the help of a chain-smoking codebreaker, a reluctant former lover of the shop’s founder, and a sharp-tongued Gen Z runaway who might be the key to everything, Quinn must uncover the truth behind Gertie Raines' hidden legacy before the past catches up with them all.

The Breakfront is a slow-burn literary mystery about memory, voice, chosen family, and the secrets we’re asked to protect—even when they aren’t ours to keep.