IT WAS A SECRET AFFAIR. UNTIL IT WAS A PUBLIC SCANDAL.Lyrical, brutal and passionate. I devoured it MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper PalaceEvocative, sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads SingBroke my heart then mended it again. An epic, tortured love story. Bring tissuesJENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsA love story like no other CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the DarkEveryone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriels return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she cant help thinking they were right. Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one shed imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But when Gabriel comes back, all Beths certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows its wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love? A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.READERS LOVE BROKEN COUNTRY ?????This book is everything. Love, heartbreak and hopeWill break you into pieces and then put you back together againI was absolutely gripped and didnt want it to endIf I could give more than five stars, I would. Perfect